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Solved - MJW #016 - Jowett Jupiter with Beverley Motors coachwork
« on: September 16, 2010, 03:31:03 PM »
This may be difficult - not for the car it was based on but who built the body?
Okay - one point for the car and another for the coachbuilder is on offer

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 04:35:49 PM »
Any more suggestions from the rookies before I move it up?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2010, 05:05:30 AM »
Now in Experts section

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2010, 08:49:53 AM »
Those wheels look very Triumph TR2 to me.
Is this a coachbilt TR2?
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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 10:53:47 AM »
Not Triumph TR2 but it is British.....

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 01:01:11 PM »
I'm fixating on those wheels as well. Is it a Bristol?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 01:14:27 PM »
The wheels got me too, but I reckon it might be a Jowett Jupiter?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2010, 01:22:26 PM »
It is a Jowett Jupiter!
One point for barrett.

The tricky part now is who built the body

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2010, 03:26:12 PM »
Well I know who didn't do it!

Is the coachbuilder from mainland Europe?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2010, 03:32:04 PM »
European yes but closer to where you are based I think!

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2010, 03:53:01 PM »
hmm, if it's from the UK then that makes it harder!

From a 'known' coachbuilder?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2010, 04:40:14 PM »
Coachbuilder is British but not a well known name

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2010, 04:42:04 PM »
Allemano - keep smiling your turn may yet come!

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2010, 07:19:08 PM »
Adams & Robinson?
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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2010, 10:46:34 PM »
Good guess but not that

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2010, 07:16:58 AM »
Coachcraft?
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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2010, 09:23:29 AM »
Not Coachcraft.
This is a difficult one so a couple of clues -
The coachbuilder is named after a girl or boy's first name and it is also the name of a small town in Yorkshire near Hull. However they were not situated there!

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2010, 09:40:16 AM »
I see a small town in Yorkshire near Hull with a boy AND a girl name:
Kirk Ella?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2010, 09:59:43 AM »
Beverley, perhaps?

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2010, 10:09:42 AM »
Damn - I'm just not quick enough.
Think I'll have to retire and sit on the site 24 hours a day to get any points!
This one was tailor-made for me as I live near Hull and my wife has the White Rabbit Chocolate shop in Beverley (if anyone wants to buy any top-quality chocolate on the Internet - all  handmade by her fair hand and scrumptious - NO Cadburys or Hersheys here!)
Perhaps I'd better stick to the chocolate..
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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2010, 04:39:29 PM »
Good guess Amsterdam but not that.

Beverley is correct!
The title is Beverley Motors of New Malden, Surrey.
I haven't seen any other examples of their work.

One point for Tom_I

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Re: MJW #016
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2010, 07:26:52 PM »
I see a small town in Yorkshire near Hull with a boy AND a girl name:
Kirk Ella?

Kirk Ella (or Kirkella) is actually a very expensive suburb of west Hull and is just a small village with a shop, church and pub!
Definitely NO coachworks - ever!
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Re: Solved - MJW #016 - Jowett Jupiter with Beverley Motors coachwork
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2010, 06:10:29 AM »
You might not have realised when you posted your clue, Woodinsight, but Jowett has various Hull connections.
One Jupiter was built by local coachbuilder Barnaby Bodybuilders (long gone) but Jowett near its end was actually bought by Blackburn Aircraft Co of Brough, just outside Hull.  They made the Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft, amongst others, and more recently the Harrier and Hawk.  They are still a big company, part of BAe.  Contrary to popular opinion Jowett did not go bankrupt but Blackburns paid off all the company's outstanding debts, but unfortunately wound it up soon after.

The Jowett R4 was used for a time by the MD of both Blackburn Aircraft and Jowett, Eric Turner, who lived in Elloughton, another expensive village in the East Yorkshire countryside near Hull.

Also living in Elloughton from 1960 until his death was long-time Managing Director of Jowett, Arthur Jopling.
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Re: Solved - MJW #016 - Jowett Jupiter with Beverley Motors coachwork
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2010, 08:01:02 AM »


The Jowett R4 was used for a time by the MD of both Blackburn Aircraft and Jowett, Eric Turner, who lived in Elloughton, another expensive village in the East Yorkshire countryside near Hull.


one of the few images i can find of the R4 shows it being driven into something like a Beverley, but i think it is instead a twin engined 'tail dragger' with a more normal empennage ... now if i could just identify the plane i might find a better version of the scene ... the R4 is a real beauty, imho, and one i can't find enough on.
thanks in anticipation (and sorry for highjacking),
steven

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Re: Solved - MJW #016 - Jowett Jupiter with Beverley Motors coachwork
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2010, 11:35:11 AM »

Sure all info is gratefully received and of interest!
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