KWE History
Knowles Wilkins Engineering (KWE) Limited was founded in 2002 by Chris Knowles and Paul Wilkins. Their aim was to build a long term business based on re-manufacturing luxury cars.
We developed the theme of 'rebirth' for cars, and our logo depicts the double headed serpent Quetzcoatl - the god of rebirth and fertility.
In 2004 James May was looking to make a film for BBC Top Gear demonstrating that along with the Parthenon, Stonehenge and Liverpool's Liver building, the Jaguar XJS is a World Heritage car!
He chose the KWE demonstration XJS V12 to illustrate his theme in a 10 minute feature. Since then the film has been repeated many times all over the world and seen by 100s of millions of viewers. This certainly put KWE very quickly on the map of classic car specialists.
In 2004 James May was looking to make a film for BBC Top Gear demonstrating that along with the Parthenon, Stonehenge and Liverpool's Liver building, the Jaguar XJS is a World Heritage car!
He chose the KWE demonstration XJS V12 to illustrate his theme in a 10 minute feature. Since then the film has been repeated many times all over the world and seen by 100s of millions of viewers. This certainly put KWE very quickly on the map of classic car specialists.