This is what came with my 67 340. Is it correct for the year?

 

The tools look like part of the set. Some things are obviously missing: you have one of the screwdriver blades but not the handle it fits in! I know there was some cost cutting on the 240 and 340 but thought that they still had their tools in a box that sits in the spare wheel. The box is similar to the steel and wood one in the earlier Mk2 cars, but made partly from plastic. The box and contents are available, but not cheap even secondhand.

 

Toolkit in wood & metal case. Later models moved to plastic case. Top centre is a spare spark plug. Right of centre is a point screwdriver, feeler gauge & tyre valve remover/extractor ~ changed from brass stamped "Dunlop" to yellow plastic late 1964. Grease gun is wrapped in Tecalemit instruction. See below. Wooden case flocked where tools lie. Not done on plastic case. Fits in inverted spare wheel in boot/trunk.

Yours should have plastic case as a 340. Some bits missing from one pictured.







Plastic tool case. (by this time Girling had bought out Dunlop Brake interests).

 

Refresh for edits as I built the post.

 

Oxendine the comments of wood/steel tool box are correct unless your car is a US 340 (large bumper). Those cars came with wood/steel. Easiest way to tell is the car chassis number. If it is a MK2 serial then wood /steel. If it has a 340 number then plastic. That type of car was either imported from Canada or some ROW market. If you wish to complete your kit there are usually boxes and tools on E bay or you could get ahold of Tom Buckus (tool guru) who could supply you what you need. Good luck.

 

According to my thick bumper 340, that's all there is, and that's all I have.
The screwdriver end that's missing, has the handle attached to it, and is removable so it can be interchanged between the 2 bits.
No doubt it has ended up in someone's tool box or kitchen tool drawer.

I'll check later and see what the bits are, from memory I think a slot and a philips.

 

Jeff it is a Slot & a Philips interchangeable in same handle. I can't see a yellow plastic valve removal tool in the plastic kit or 4 open end spanners. I have a plastic kit that has both that I inherited on top of my wood & steel complete box which is correct for my car . Tyre pressure gauge came wrapped. Tyre pressure gauge was a Dunlop 6J ("J" was for. "Jaguar,").

My plastic box is likely ex a 420 as we built them here in SA. Some included a winged motif.

 

As I said, my kit is the same as Oxendine's.
Glyn, I don't understand your comment about the plastic valve removal tool of the 4 open end spanners, there's not room for that.
Or are you suggesting that there is another hit that's missing ?

Oxendine asked if this is the correct kit, at this point I'm going to say yes, there is nothing else for the 340.

 

Jeff. There might be 2 versions of the Plastic cased kit. I must look very carefully at my plastic kit to see if the molding is South African. We had some local quirks. The contents of our plastic kits was exactly the same as the wooden kits. and SA kits always left the King Dick or whatever Mk2 Jack Ratchet in the kits. Even S Type & 420 where they were omitted from Browns Lane kits as they served no purpose on an S Type or 420. Another quirk of the CKD cars it seems, my plastic kit has 4 spanners & deeper pockets for them. There was plenty of room for the valve tool in the point adjusting tool & feeler gauge for the valve removal tool.

All our cars came with either of these dependent on year and a robust hydraulic jack for local conditions in a leather bag. I have restored my car to British standards because the old local materials used are no longer available here. We were in Phase 2 of our local content program by then i.e. 54% by weight until they later changed to the value system. Why we built engines here from blank heads & blocks with the latest state of the art equipment for the era paid for by the SA Taxpayer. Lyons did a deal with the Govt at the time who were enforcing local content in vehicles built here.






SA supplied jack out of it's cover.


Very early cars with drum brakes ~ Mk1 etc. had a brake adjuster & bleeding tool below the Round bleed tube tin in that slot.
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Showing very early totally correct toolkit with brass valve removal tool & bleeding tool. Sorry one spanner has slipped too low.

 

How it all started for our compact era above ^. Seems some NA kits might have been trimmed down over time. SA kits remained complete but deleted bleeding spanner. Both wood & plastic. Tyre valve remover moved from brass to yellow plastic late '64. I keep both in my car as it stops arguments.

Cardboard sheath over plug threads was either silver or black. There might be a date attached to that, that I don't know.

 

All NA Jaguars continued to carry the normal full tool kit until 1968. The 420 saloons that came in in 1968 had the full tool kit as expected but the E-Type had a greatly reduced offering which caused enough ruckus that bulletins had to be issued to dealers. There were no 1968 340(Mk2) imported nor 240/ 420G or 'S-Types" as they did not meet new regulations. Jaguar had spent what time and energy they had making sure the best seller (E-Type) met Fed. regs. and developing the XJ6. The 420 met the early requirements but of course its days were ending. Dealers and the world were waiting for the XJ6 which in the US came with the minimum tool requirements. Full tool kits were available but were an additional option. As far as the Jaguars for Canada it is a bit different. E types that were ordered direct from Jaguar by Jaguar Canada seem to have come with the ROW set up in 1968 to include three carbs. etc. but were rare. Cars transferred from the tax free port in the US had US tool compliment as well as 2 Strom. carbs. As far as 240 and 340 models that were still legal in Canada they may have rec. the plastic box as there was a lot of cost cutting at Jaguar at the time and the plastic box was half the cost. Some confusion may be possible as the wood and steel boxes often did not fair well and the replacement after 68 would have most likely been plastic although both part numbers are still listen in the 1968 J12. Perhaps our Canadian friends can comment on the plastic kits.

 

CF ~ Thank you for your response.

 

As a consequence of this thread and seeking diversion from using an angle grinder on a spring hanger, I opened the tool kit of my car today, probably for the first time in a few decades. The result of several years in a very humid garage is surface rust on everything. I've removed most of it with emery paper. The Dunlop tin can with the brake bleed hose has the worst damage with perforations and the lid solidly fixed. For now, it's soaking in machine oil.

 

I have the original toolkit (metal and wood case) that came in my 1965 S type (built 1964). The screwdriver has a flathead long bit and a phillips long bit.

Also have a modern but somewhat similar screwdriver with a reversible bit. It does have a modern "jaguar" logo on it. Probably XJ40.

the toolkit that came with my 1984 XJ-6 (built 1983), has a transparent yellow screwdriver with a reversible bit.

I think they put whatever screwdrivers they could get in those kits. They are not very consistent.