The founder
From brewer to engineer.
Neville Swales didn't follow a conventional path into engineering. He began his working life in the family brewing business — but his real passion was always the cars that captured his imagination as a boy.
Settling in Coventry, the spiritual home of Jaguar, he taught himself his craft and set about building something no one else had: a meticulous, cross-referenced database of lost Jaguar history, pieced together from factory drawings and the people who built them.
That single-minded obsession turned a self-taught enthusiast into a respected recreator of lost motoring history — and gave rise to Building The Legend.
