After the sale of the fibreglass side of the business by W&P to Fibresports in 1973, Len Pritchard was finally free of what his son Graham describes as "the terribly smelly business" of fibreglass manufacture, and re-focussed W&P's output onto his preferred medium of work in aluminium. The Jaguar D-Type, having won Le Mans in 1956, 1957 and 1958, was a prime candidate for a "recreation", being such an iconic race car. Having bodied the original "knobbly" Lister Jaguars in the fifties, Len was the obvious person to approach when Bryan Wingfield, influenced by experiences with Ecurie Ecosse in the sixties, decided to build a D-Type replica. Bryan, an engineering expert formerly employed by Ford and involved in the GT40 project, had been involved in motorsport since his youth, and had recently set up his own engineering company. Over the years this company built many historic replicas and Bryan, in addition to being an accomplished historic racer, is well known in Ford, GT40 and "Class C" circles.

In an article published in Autocar in July 1983, Bryan reminisces about trips made to W&P's works at Edmonton:

"It was on one of those trips, incidentally, that I found W&P making a new monocoque for one of Nigel Moore's D-Types, and that is where the inspiration for the Dee-Type replicas came from. I knew that if Len Pritchard and Charlie Williams could build the bodies, I could alter E-Type frames to suit and the rest was relatively easy."

The first car was produced in Ecurie Ecosse livery and sold to famous period and historic racer Robs Lamplough, and was reviewed in the May 1975 edition of Motor magazine alongside a Lynx Engineering D-Type Replica. Mike McCarthy, the test drive reviewer, expresses the view that the Wingfield Dee Type was the truer and more raw recreation, "as close a copy as you can get - within reason". He comments on W&P's involvement aprovingly given their "fair bit of experience rebuilding crashed or rough genuine D Types", and gives the following technical specifications:

E-type front subframe, but with additional tubular structure to the rear bulkhead, which could be used on a genuine D-Type. Front suspension also E-Type which is very similar to the original D-Type. Live rear axle by Salisbury in the format of the D-Type with coil springs rather than torsion bars for suspension. Limited slip differential with a 3.07:1 ratio (close to the 2.79:1 ratio on the original Le Mans D-Types). The 4.2 litre E-type engine was tuned by Forward Engineering with C-Type cam and 3 45 DCOE Webers.

The Motor article also seems to intimate at Robs and Len being involved in the Wingfield project as partners in the business venture, but this is far from clear, given that only 3 Wingfield Dee types were bodied by W&P.

This very car was acquired by Cees den Haan in Holland in 2004.

In Cees' own words:

"I have a Wingfield Dee Type with a Williams & Pritchard body. It is the first production Wingfield D Type, built in 1975 and sold to Robs Lamplough. He was a famous historic racer, ex RAF Spitfire pilot and part time movie star. He bought the car from Bryan Wingfield for £7,900. Whether or where he raced the car is not known to me. Since then the car has had several owners, among others Richard Pilkinton, another famous historic racer. Only 3 of these cars were built with a W & P body. The car is described in the book "Jaguar D type & XKSS", by Graham Robson.  I have owned the car since the end of 2004.