Brief telecon this morning, with our chairman, he was trogging through Poland behind a Steam engine (In a carriage for the smartys out there) powering through 2 feet of snow and loving every minute.

We are due to be able to view a potential shed during/after the event at the Knott so come prepared please!!!

Some sad news has reached us of the death of Phillida Bradshaw (Fid) wife of Robert Bradshaw.

Fid and Robert hosted many North West Section Events at Sutton Hall, until their recent retirement.

Not many people will know that Fid had been receiving dialysis for over 25 years. She always managed to be happy smiling and cheerful and we remember her with great affection as we swept into her life once a year trailing Jowetts, feely bags and doubtful competitions.

We send Robert our condolences at this sad time.

Colour and Font are poor but you ask but a simple task.

The 1949 advert below shows a Javelin on a trifling little bit of snow. We have around 10″ at the moment, however 1948 and 1963 would have been different stories:-

A dilemma. Santa brought ‘im indoors some lovely bright, new, chrome hub caps specially ordered for the Bradford Van. We have it on good authority (Tim) that Percy (The Bradford) currently with black hub caps, is a Bradford that should not sport shiny chrome ones.
What should we do?
Ignore Tim and put on chrome (store black painted ones in a cupboard)
Listen to Tim and procede with black painted ones (hide chrome in cupboard)

Of course the caps could be switched according to who is with us.

Over to you

I find it all a bit bewildering like the poor chap below:-

But here is to next year being the best Jowett year ever.

Most car owners would be alarmed to find out that their vehicle had been in a crash and that its body had been repaired using second-hand parts. Not so the owners of Jowett Jupiter JUN 70.

Some dedicated car club members have been trawling handwritten records to find the whereabouts of some 901 Jupiter cars manufactured in the 50’s. There is a door here, a boot lid there, and would you believe a very special bunch of spares.

In 1951 a Jowett Jupiter GKY 106, the 4th Std Jupiter ever produced, was raced in the 1951 Monte Carlo. amongst many other things.

Sadly by about 1970, the chassis had been scrapped and only bits survived. Someone has the spare wheel door and others have other bits.

However the bonnet was sold to a Mr S, previous owner of JUN. A recent visit to his widow, Mrs S revealed that yes indeed he had bought a bonnet from ‘down south’ after the car had been involved in a prang.

It is fairly certain that this is the bonnet on Jupiter #946 (Jun 70). So our bonnet raced in the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally!

‘Im in the garage outdoors, has been searching under the lid to find the necessary number stamped into the metal for definitive proof, sadly yet to be forthcoming. But fading eyesight is not good for this task and layers of paint and waterproofing may just have obscured it.

But I will be happy to tell anyone that parts of my body moved at speed, once.

Click here. This site was pointed out to me a little earlier today

Dianne says:-

The Bradford is slowly being sorted out. Glyn has painted the bulkhead
some of the chassis and on Sunday we put the engine back in, after a bit
of an issue with one of the engine mountings, it is now sitting quite
happily where it should be. Nothing is actually connected up yet, but it’s
getting there. We need to get a new silencer for it and then hopefully
everything can be reconnected and we can have it running.