Los Angeles : British industrialist William Lyons ( center ), chairman of jaguar cars limited, Coventry, England, pictured shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles with Charles H. Hornberg Jr,( right), import of distributor for Jaguar west of Mississippi and F.R.W. England, Jaguar general service manager. Lions visited Los Angeles as part of an extended trip to the United States to visit jaguar distributors and dealers . the record breaking jaguar car is a big dollar earner for Britain, with more than 50% of its production sold in the United States 7 October 1952