Founded in 1922 by Sir William Lyons, Jaguar Cars Ltd., was originally known as the Swallow Sidecar Company. Headquartered in the UK, Jaguar Cars Ltd – known as Jaguar – is a British luxury car manufacturer, part of the Jaguar Land Rover business and subsidiary of Tata Motors, India. When it was first launched, it manufactured motorcycle sidecars. It later moved to passenger cars. The reason the name changed from Swallow Sidecar to Jaguar is because the initials SS connoted negative meanings, following the Second World War. The company merged with British Motor Corporation (thereafter subsumed by Leyland) which pushed the company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. For five years thereafter, it was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index when it was then acquired by Ford. In its regal element, JLR holds warrants from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Charles and manufactures cars for the British Prime Minister.
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