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Lister Jaguar Limited
(+44) 01254 355101
Email: info@listercars.com
Website: www.listercars.com
The Lister name and logo are Registered Trademarks. 12.2013

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ANNIVERSARY
To celebrate our 60th anniversary we are pleased to announce the limited release
of what has been described as “the most successful racing car of the late 1950s”
The Lister Jaguar ‘Knobbly’
THE LISTER MOTOR
COMPANY
Founding
The fairytale legend
The legend is reborn
British craftsmanship at its best
The Jaguar Powertrain
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THE LISTER
HERITAGE
George Lister Engineering
Archie Scott Brown
Laurence Pearce
Lister Storm
Unmistakably British
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HERITAGE IN THE
MAKING
Handcrafted into the modern world
Sanctioning your Lister
Take your new Lister racing
Contact Us
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The Lister Motor
Company

Founded in 1954,
Lister is one of the
oldest racing car
manufacturers in
the world
Our group of companies include some of the best known names in racing:
Lister Storm Limited
Lister Jaguar Limited
Lister Heritage Limited
Lister Storm LMP Limited
Lister Storm Racing Limited
Brian Lister (Light Engineering) Limited
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The fairytale legend
In 1953 Brian Lister petitioned his father to allow him time off from working at the
George Lister factory to build a race car. Horace Lister agreed. If he hadn’t, the face
of UK motorsport might have looked very different.
The legend is reborn
The Lister Jaguar was driven by some of the most notable racing car drivers of
the 50s including: Archie Scott Brown, Stirling Moss, Ivor Beub, Bruce Halford and
Innes Ireland amongst many others.
With a shoestring budget compared to
his competitors and often working into
the early hours of the morning, Brian
and the craftsmen from George Lister
Engineering entered their first race in
1954.
Even though Brian Lister was only
active as a racing car constructor
for little more than 5 years, his
success shook the foundations of the
established racing car teams to the
very core.
1953
Between 1954 and 1959 only 50 original cars
were produced but they won, or were placed,
over two thousand times in track events
worldwide
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1954 1959
2014
ANNIVERS ARY
As in the past, the new cars are
handcrafted by the expert engineers at
the George Lister Engineering Works in
Cambridge under the watchful eye of
Colin ‘Chippy’ Crisp, who worked on the
original cars in 1958.
Fitted with the race proven Jaguar
D Type 3.8 litre 6 cylinder engine
complete with the famous wide-angle
cylinder head, dry sump lubrication
and genuine Jaguar D type gearbox.
All new Lister Jaguars will come
complete with a FIA HTP passport
for historic racing, alternatively if
you require a Lister for the road, we
can build your car to adhere to IVA
regulations for use on the UK or EU
roads. For road use specifications
outside the EU please contact us.
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British craftsmanship
at its best
The first Lister rolled out of the Cambridge factory in England on the 30th July 1954.
Within 3 years Lister had become the most revered manufacturer of racing cars in the
world, thanks to the dedicated craftsmen who gave their all and had one simple belief -
that they could build a race winning car.
Only the finest craftsmanship goes into making a new Lister Jaguar. For example, it
takes 500 hours to hand craft the exquisite aluminium body using traditional methods.
Our tubular chassis are made in the original jigs using the highest grade seamless steel
engineering tube and all welding is pressure and crack tested to ensure the integrity of
all joints is flawless even under racing conditions.
We have embraced some modern techniques too and use the latest CNC machines to
ensure 100% accuracy to manufacture the wheel hubs and suspension parts. The
De-Dion rear suspension is also manufactured using the highest quality materials in
the original jigs at the George Lister factory.
Through our dedication to British craftsmanship we ensure that Lister remains true to
our motto: ‘A British Racing Icon ’.
Now is your chance to sit in the driving seat of a brand new Lister Jaguar, built
to the original 1958 specification and to meet current FIA appendix K race
regulations.

The Jaguar Powertrain
Lister was unique in the fact that it was the only racing team to work directly with Jaguar and their competition department at
Browns Lane, Coventry. The powertrain Jaguar supplied was the legendary D-Type unit. Originally seen in the XK120 in 1948,
by 1957 it had been developed into one of the world’s most reliable racing engines, having won Le Mans five times along with
innumerable other successes.
The 1957 Jaguar powered Lister proved to be Lister’s most successful car and the affinity between the great car companies is
one that never waned. Today, the new Lister Jaguars will use the exact same Jaguar D-Type 3.8 engine fitted with the famous
wide angle head and D-Type gearbox as was in period. The unit will be manufactured brand new by Crosthwaite & Gardiner in
Sussex and fitted to the Listers at the George Lister Factory in Cambridge.
Jaguar D Type, Race Specification 3,781cc
ENGINE TYPE:
Jaguar D Type 3,781cc, Race Specification
CYLINDER BLOCK:
6 cylinders in line, C8610 cast iron block
CYLINDER HEAD:
35/40 degree wide angle D Type alloy
CAMSHAFTS:
Twin OHC, high lift racing 110° duration
LUBRICATION:
Full flow, twin oil pumps, dry sump with oil
cooler
WHEELS:
Dunlop racing peg drive alloy 5” x 16”
DIMENSIONS:
Length 13ft 6”, Wheelbase 7ft 6.3/4”
WEIGHT:
1,736 lbs (dry)
FUEL TANK:
38/42 imperial gallons
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POWER TORQUE ACCELERATION 0-60 mph ACCELERATION 0-100 mph MAX SPEED
330 bhp 295 lbs ft 4.3 Seconds 10.1 Seconds 181 mph
at 6,750 rpm at 4,250 rpm

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The Lister
Heritage
Silverstone GP, 19th July 1958
Stirling Moss driving Lister Jaguar
MVE 303 to victory

Silverstone GP, 19th July 1958
Stirling Moss driving Lister Jaguar MVE 303 to victory

George Lister
Engineering
Founded in 1890 by Brian Lister’s grandfather, George Lister Engineering is one of Cambridgeshire’s
oldest firms. Renowned for their architectural metal work, their blacksmiths produced some of the
finest wrought iron works in Cambridge and the surrounding counties.
Today George Lister
Engineering has diversified
and recently worked on
large projects such as Brunel
University and the Chatham
Maritime Marina.
They also had their part to
play in the 2012 Olympic
Games with contracts for the
Stratford Link Bridge and the
Olympic Velodrome, where
Team GB dominated the
cycling competition winning
seven out of a possible ten
gold medals.
The new Lister Jaguar is,
as in the 1950s, being
manufactured and assembled
by George Lister Engineering
in Cambridgeshire.
Archie Scott Brown
William Archibald Scott Brown was born on the 13th May 1927 in
Paisley, Scotland.
As a result of German measles during his mother’s pregnancy, Archie was born
with severe disfigurement of his legs and right arm. Tremendous determination
and countless operations were needed to allow Archie to walk, although he never
grew more than 5 feet tall.
His disability certainly didn’t hinder him behind the wheel and his courageous
driving style was not overlooked by Brian Lister. In 1954 Archie swept to
prominence in the Lister Bristol, but it wasn’t until 1957 that Archie really hit the
headlines in the Lister Jaguar, when he proved to be almost unbeatable during
the course of the season.
Tragically, Archie died following a crash in a works Lister on the 18th May 1958.
He was 31.

Laurence Pearce
In 1986 Laurence Pearce breathed new life into Lister. It was during this time
that the first purpose built road car was created in the form of the Lister Le
Mans. With a price tag of £115,000 and capable of 200mph+, 90 were made
between 1986 and 1992.
Lister Storm
Success at this endeavour led the company to design a new sports racer, the
Lister Storm. Launched in 1993, it would use the largest V12 engine ever fitted
to a production road car up to that time, a 7.0 Litre Jaguar unit.
Due to the immense power the
Lister Storm was the world’s fastest
production 4 seat car for over 12
years. The Storm was later developed
for motorsport and proved
immensely successful, winning the FIA
GT Championship in 2000, the British
Empire Trophy, The Empire Gold Cup
and the Tourist Trophy.
In 2003 Pearce developed a bespoke
Le Mans prototype, the Storm LMP,
fitted with a 6.0 litre Chevrolet V8
putting out 570bhp.

Unmistakably British…
When Baroness Thatcher
met Lister – two of the most
iconic and unequivocally
British embodiments of
the 20th century came
together
Lister is a hallowed British car brand and I’m so delighted that it’s back in
business. In the 50s Lister Knobblys were out-dragging D type Jaguars, pulling
180 mph and using miracle materials like magnesium alloy. I can’t wait to see
existing Lister cars properly authenticated, new Listers being built and lots of
Knobblys back in classic racing. This is wonderful news for the proud Lister
racing heritage that stretches back more than half a century.
QUENTIN WILLSON (MOTORING JOURNALIST)
The Lister Jaguar was Britain’s most successful big-engined sports racing car of
the late 1950s!
PAUL SKILLETER (AUTHOR, LISTER-JAGUAR - BRIAN LISTER AND THE CARS FROM CAMBRIDGE)

I’ve got a painting on my wall that I commissioned as my ‘Dream
Come True’. In the foreground I’m harrying Stirling Moss through
the Goodwood Chicane at the first ever Revival Meeting in 1998.
He’s in the very Aston Martin DBR1 that took him to victory in the
1959 Tourist Trophy, I’m in the ex Ecurie Belge Lister Jaguar of
the same year. It’s a true image of what actually happened on the
track but I had the Chicane and the Grandstand behind painted
as if it was in ’59 because one of the little pink dots in the crowd
is an 8 year old Tiff dreaming of racing a Lister Jaguar like his
hero Archie Scott Brown…
Being a great enthusiast of Listers, having been fortunate to have
maintained and raced Lister Jaguars for the past 30 years, I am
delighted that the Lister Jaguar and its legacy is set to continue.
GARY PEARSON (LISTER RACE PREPARATION SPECIALIST)
Straightforward, robust and elegant, the Lister was beyond
doubt the finest sports racer of its class in the 1950s. Beautifully
made, tough, light and reliable, it combined the merit of neutral
handling, coupled with uncompromising grunt from a variety of
engines, which served to define the blaring ‘Big banger’ racing
car for years to come. Still competitive today, the Lister chassis
remains a benchmark for thoughtful design. Naturally, it requires
a useful driver behind the wheel...
ROBERT EDWARDS (AUTHOR, ARCHIE AND THE LISTERS)
I would say that the Knobbly Lister is one of the most charismatic
of fifties sports racers: Obviously it has striking good looks and
power but when you actually drive it, what will really surprise you
is the benign handling. I love them.
CHRIS KEITH LUCAS (LISTER RACE PREPARATION SPECIALIST)
TIFF NEEDELL (MOTORING JOURNALIST & FORMER LISTER STORM DRIVER)
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Colin ‘Chippy’ Crisp
Dick Barton
Graham ‘Curley’ Hutton
Brian Lister
Martin Murray
The original Lister engineers
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Heritage
in the making

Handcrafted into
the modern world
In September 2013 the news that Lister was back in business hit the newsstands. The response
was phenomenal and came from all corners of the globe as journalists, enthusiasts, racers
and fans rejoiced at the news that Lister would build the Lister Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ once more.
As was the case in 1958,
George Lister Engineering
have been contracted to build
the new Lister Jaguar - the
only change is that the new
cars will adhere to the FIA
Appendix K regulations.
To celebrate 60 years since the first Lister was completed,
a very limited number of Lister Cars will feature a unique
60th anniversary plaque honed from solid silver. The 60th
anniversary plaque will adorn only those cars delivered in
2014 and as such these cars will become true collectors’
pieces.
Brian Lister Andrew Whittaker Quentin Willson Lawrence Whittaker
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Sanction Your
Lister
Take your new
Lister racing
There are currently a number of non-factory built cars in the market sporting Lister
badges. Some of these cars are crude facsimiles but others may be classed as ’tool
room copies’ and may even have obtained FIA/HTP historic racing papers.
All non-factory built Listers can be brought to the Lister factory and sanctioned in
order to obtain a genuine BHL(S) chassis number - the minimum requirement to
obtain a sanction chassis number will be the supply and fitment of a genuine Lister
chassis. All other renovation work can also be conducted at the Lister factory in
Cambridge.
Every new Lister Knobbly purchased from the factory will be suitable for all levels
of historic racing. Each car will come with a FIA HTP passport and will be eligible for
race series such as the prestigious Stirling Moss Trophy run by Duncan Wiltshire
and Motor Racing Legends (www.motorracinglegends.com), amongst other races
throughout the year.
Should you have any doubt about your driving skills, former Lister Storm driver
Tiff Needell is also on board to offer track day training to every new Lister owner.

Contact Us
Head Office & Sales
The Lister Motor Company Ltd
5 Petre Court
Petre Road
Clayton Le Moors
Lancashire
BB5 5HY
UK
(+44) 01254 355101
Vehicle Manufacturing Plant
George Lister Engineering Ltd
Queens Business Park
Wilbraham Road
Fulbourn
Cambridge
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UK
(+44) 01223 884504
Email: info@listercars.com
Website: www.listercars.com
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