LONDON - Prestige carmaker Jaguar refused to comment on reports that a swastika and a cache of pornographic magazines were found in Queen Elizabeth‘s new car. The magazines were in a cavity while the swastika was painted behind a seat panel. Both were discovered by workers when the car was being made bomb-proof in Coventry, newspapers said.

The „factory extras“ would not normally have been discovered except the Queen‘s car had several panels removed to allow for bomb-proofing, The Guardian said. A worker at the Coventry plant, where the car was made, has agreed to resign over the incident, the paper said. A Jaguar employee said: „It is one of those old traditions where people used to write things behind the seat panel of cars and they were never discovered unless there was an accident. But on this occasion it was not very funny.“ Reuters