The Jowett Jupiter Booklist - if you are interested in the Jupiter you should have these books in your collection...
The only book in print devoted just to the Jowett Jupiter !
The Jowett Jupiter, a Car for Road, Rally and Race
Available from all good bookshops but quote the ISBN, or Click here to contact I post to the UK for £6.00, but Chaters price is £4.99!I post to the Eurozone for 10 Euro for 1 book.All other countries E-mail me for a quote. |
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Jowett Javelin and Jupiter - The Complete Story Publisher: The Crowood Press in April 2003. Available from all good bookshops. Discounts available. This is, and most likely always will be, the authoritative book on the Jowett Javelin and Jupiter To buy on line direct from the publisher click here then type Jowett in the search box, then click on GO. Chaters 8 South Street, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 7DH, England. Tel: 44 (0)208 568 9750 Fax: 44 (0)208 569 8273 E-mail: books@chaters.co.uk USA readers: The book devotes a full chapter to the Jupiter's USA competition history. February 2005 Road & Track carried a glowing review! They loved it! Australians can visit the Pitstop Bookshop website and purchase it for the reduced price AUS$34.95 incl GST quote 13491 Description: The Jowett Javelin and the sports Jupiter models are the stuff of legend and many stories have been told about them. Some of the stories are even true! This book separates fact from fiction and tells the whole story of the advanced Javelin and Jupiter models, their production and sporting history, special versions and the promising but ultimately still born R4 and CD models that could have saved the company's car manufacturing future. Fans of Jowetts, classic British cars and automotive lost causes will love this beautifully presented book. For UK purchasers, the WH Smith online shop lists this wonderful book at £13.17. Click on this link then type Jowett in the search box and select books. For a list of sources of the book in several countries, click here. |
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Jowett Javelin and Jupiter - The Complete Story has been reviewed in the UK's Practical Classics magazine June 2003 issue. They liked it a lot! "This is the last word on the great history and tragic demise of one of the most forward-thinking British car manufacturers...makes you realise why so many people have such a great affection for these advanced 'fifties machines".
It was Classics magazine Book of the Month for July 2003.
See also This is Bradford for a fuller review.
Noel Stokoe's third book is called "Jowett - Advertising the Marque". It is published by Tempus priced at £12.99rrp (£12.14 UK price including postage purchased from Tempus via their website). For the first time it brings together Jowett's wonderfully colloquial adverts from the 1920s all the way through to the firm's closure in 1954.
Noel Stokoe's second book is called "My Car was a Jowett" and is a collection of 110 letters from ex-Jowett owners including Sir Stirling Moss and the explorer John Blashford-Snell. It is a nostalgic and light-hearted look at Jowett ownership from the 1920s onwards. 160 pages, 100 photos.
Noel's first book is called "Jowett 1901 - 1954" is published by Tempus in their Images of Motoring series.
The history of the Jowett company is told through over 200 excellent photographs with some text.
To order over the internet: click on Tempus then put "Stokoe" in the search box and click Search
To order by telephone during UK office hours Monday to Friday, call (0)1608 652936.
Postal addresses:
Tempus Publishing Ltd, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG, UK
Arcadia Publishing, 2 Cumberland street, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Here are two out-of-print books you might wants to search for:
The Jowett Jupiter, the Car that Leaped to Fame
ISBN 0-7134-3835-5
Author: Edmund Nankivell
Publisher: Batsford in 1981
Now only available from second-hand sources. You could
try:
The Complete Jowett History Books well worth reading that mention Jupiters include:
A major book for Jowett and MG people is entitled Auto-Architect and is
subtitled The Autobiography of Gerald Palmer. A fascinating and detailed account of
the life and designs of the man responsible for the Jowett Javelin, the Wolseley 4/44, MG
ZA Magnette, Riley pathfinder, and the Wolseley 6/90. There is much technical detail which
does not reduce the book's inherent readability. An example is his discussion on page 51
of why the MG Magnette looks slightly higher at the rear than Gerry had intended. He was
the inspiration behind the MGA Twin-cam engine, and played a role in the acquisition by
Rover of the 3.5litre V8 engine from Buick. He played no part in the Jupiter project, having left Jowett before it got under way.
He had always wanted to design a production sports car but never did, having to content
himself with a self-designed special and the restoration of the 1924 Targa Florio Mercedes
and a Bugatti. Contact Magna press, Knowle House, Hooke Road, East Horsley, Nr
Leatherhead, Surrey KT24 5DY, England. Only 750 copies have been printed in what is
described as a Limited Edition. These two books, both very well illustrated and both good in their way and well
researched, are disappointing from the Jupiter angle. The A-Z of British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 (Nick Walker - Bay View Books) has
interesting things to say about Abbott, Coachcraft, Flewitt, and Harold Radford, four of a
much larger number of British coachbuilders to work on Jupiter chassis, but only Radford
is mentioned as bodying "at least one Jupiter". The author covers the pre-WWII
period with commendable thoroughness, but confines his post-war writings to what he calls
the survivors (except for Radford) who stuck to what in his view are
"conventional" coachbuilding techniques. He also confines himself to passenger
cars, wisely. Briggs Bodies (who built Bradford and Javelin bodies post WWII amongst
rather more Fords) are included on the strength of some neat thirties offerings. Classic Cars of the 1950s and 1960s (Michael Sedgewick - Tiger Books
International)
And that is about it apart from a drawing of Javelin! The elegant Jupiter, whose
chassis was designed by Eberan-Eberhorst of Auto Union fame, which won its class three
times in a row at Le Mans and class-won the Monte and outright-won the Lisbon
international rallies (amongst other victories including Watkins Glen) qualifies only for
the briefest of mentions in Mike "The Mouth" Sedgewick's quirky view. Don't let me put you off, though. Get them from your local library. Two Jupiter-relevant books available through conventional car book shops (or Mill House
Books, The Mill House, Eastville, Boston, Lincs PE22 8LS, UK - E-mail MHBooks2@aol.com) are JOWETT ALL-TIME GREATS,
and POST-WAR JOWETT. Both these books are actually reprints of magazine articles
(period and beyond) and period road tests, and there may be some overlap between the two
publications. The standard of reprinting is not as high as one would wish, but at least
they are available.
ISBN 0-85429-683-2
Author: Edmund Nankivell and Paul Clarke
Publisher: Haynes in 1991
Now
this book is
only available from second-hand sources. You could
try:
NB Mill House Books also do PRE-WAR JOWETT and JOWETTS OF THE THIRTIES.
Edmund Nankivell (10 October 1999).
This book on the Morgan 4-wheeler:
Morgan Sports Cars, the Early Years (by two life-long Morgan owner/enthusiasts Alderson and Chapman) has all the flavour of the times when the Jupiter was "in-era". It will be of interest to all who want to know more about amateur motor sport from the thirties up to 1953.Available from Melvyn Rutter Ltd price GBP24.95 + packing & post:
Tel +44-(0)1279-725 725 or fax +44-(0)1279-726 901
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Or check the label of this pleasant Belgian beer for the one different letter! It's the best-selling pils beer in Belgium. It has even had a Reggae song written about it...see below...
Jupiler Reggae
I was walking through the street one
day
I saw a man with a bottle in his hand
I went to the man and I asked him in his face
Hey, man, what beer are you drinking there ?
You must be joking was what he said
only one beer goes in my head
you know, I am a Jupiler man
drink it as much as I can
I am a Jupiler man, love it as much as I can
A Jupiler man, a Jupiler man
Jupiler, Jupiler, Jupiler
that’s my beer, for that I care
Jupiler, Jupiler, Jupiler
Jupiler, Jupiler, Jupiler
(anon)
Scientists have discovered that beer includes replicas of female hormones. So, drinking too much beer could make men into women, hence brewers' droop! To test the findings, tests carried out jointly by MIT, Cambridge University, Manchester College of Science and Technology, and the Guy Lombardo institute of pure science, 100,000 men were forced to drink 14 pints of real ale each day for seven days.
It was then observed that 97.275% of the men:-
= talked excessively without really making sense
= gained weight
= became overly emotional and failed to think rationally
= couldn't drive their motor car, even when it was a Jowett
= argued over nothing at all, and failed to apologise when wrong
Sorry ladies! Science is science
Congratulations for persisting this far! Californians can find a genuine Jupiter beer here!
Or, for UK beer-drinking Jupiter owners, try this website
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