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Jowett Cars were built in Bradford, from 1906 to 1954. All pre-war cars up to 1935 were powered by a twin-cylinder horizontally opposed 7hp engine. In 1935 a new four-cylinder horizontally opposed engine was introduced with a 10hp rating running alongside the original twin-cylinder model which had been increased to an 8hp rating. Little changed during this pre-war period, many of the models were made in very small numbers, and sadly, there are no survivors today. The Jowett brothers experimented in the mid-1930’s with a new in-line power unit which did not go into production. The post-war period saw massive changes in the Jowett company, with both Jowett brothers retiring by the end of the war. The first all-new model was the Javelin saloon, launched in 1947 and the Jupiter sportscar in 1950. By 1951 there should have led to a completely new range of cars, vans, pick-up and estate cars, known as the Bradford CD range. There were plans for a racing Jupiter known as the R1 and to re-vamp the Jupiter for road use known as the R4. Sadly, none of these models materialised and Jowett’s history could have been so different had fate been kinder to them.

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Noel Stokoe was born in York in 1950 and, like his father, has always been interested in old cars. He worked for Barclays Bank for thirty years, then five years in a building society, finally at the local library for eight years, retiring in 2013. He bought his first Jowett in 1985, a 1952 Jupiter sports car that he still owns; he also owns a 1952 Javelin saloon and a 1953 Bradford van. He has been the press officer and librarian of the Jowett Car Club for over thirty years and has previously had eight books published on the marque.

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