JOAC 2008 AGM and ANNUAL DINNER

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For JOAC Members and all Jupiter owners

WEEKEND OF 14/15 JUNE

was the JOAC 2008 AGM and ANNUAL DINNER / RALLY

below: here are some of us on the Sunday morning

Tony and Angela Mumby kindly organised the weekend for us, which was well attended, with a total of 14 Jupiters appearing at one time or another over the weekend. The longest drive was by Tony and Elizabeth Day who travelled just over 300 miles. to our hotel. A total of at least 14 Jupiters appeared at one time or another over the weekend.

Below:

Tom Chapman's nearly restored Abbott saloon-bodied Jupiter

Two shots of the Jupiter lineup at the Ramada Hull

Geoff McAuley's recently-completed Fiorano Jupiter

Alastair Gregg has sent these photos:-

More information will appear on this page in due course. Watch this space!

The JOAC AGM took place in the Ramada Hotel Hull (situated between Beverley and Hull) at 4 pm on Saturday 14th June.  Then in the evening there was a great get-together and dinner.

We saw Tom Chapman's nearly-restored Abbott-bodied Jupiter! We saw Geoff McAuley's newly built special-bodied Jupiter!

We met Phill Green, keeper of Jowett history alive - he was there! See below...

Hull is more properly known as Kingston-upon-Hull as there is a Hull river that flows through the town into the Humber.

It is the birthplace of William Wilberforce, best known for his campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. Whilst in Hull you can visit Wilberforce House.

 A.       JOAC AGM at the Ramada, Saturday 14th June at 4pm

B.        Annual JOAC Dinner in the evening of 14th June at the Ramada. Time:– 7:30 for 8:00

C.        Scenic run on Sunday morning 15th June

D.       Visit to "The Deep" after the run on Sunday 15th June.  

 ►For the dinner, we selected our own menu à la carte at the restaurant on the evening. Special area set aside for us.

►Price guide - Chef's Choice costs £20.00 for three courses.

Phill Green, ex Jowett man known to many of us, will be attending the dinner. As a lad, Phill used to race motorcycles on the nearby Brough aerodrome with a couple of other Jowett lads, they would transport their machines (pre-war BSAs and the like) to and from Brough in a Bradford van.

Phill worked in Jowett's Experimental Dept and was privy to all the developments going on there including the preparations for the great competitions. He was a great driver and enthusiast of the Jupiter.

About the Hotel. The Ramada Hotel Hull, AA recommended 3-star, is set in 12 acres of landscaped gardens between Beverley (4 miles) and Hull (5 miles). 

The hotel has a Sebastian Coe Health Club offering health, beauty and leisure facilities including a spa. There is also an indoor pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and solarium - oh, and a hair-dressing salon

 For those who came up from the south, it is just 5 miles from across the Humber Bridge (which is the fifth-largest single-span suspension bridge in the world).

Visits nearby include The Deep, Castle Howard, Beverley Minister and the city of York.

 The Deep is advertised as one of the most spectacular Aquariums in the world and tells the story of the world's oceans from the beginning of time until now – it has had over two million visitors since it opened just six years ago.  Billed as the 'World's only Submarium', with 40 sharks amongst other sea creatures, and a glass lift ride through a 10-metre deep tank.

The scenic run took us to our lunch stop and then The Deep.

 For tourism information for Yorkshire’s East Riding area, visit:–

http://www.touristnetuk.com/ne/eastriding/ 

…or call 01482 867430

Hull has two Jowett connections:-

One of the Jowett connection is that the special-bodied Jupiter, very Jupiter-like, of Peter Holden was built in Hull by Barnaby Bodybuilders. We hope this car will be with us on the 14th/15th June, it is promised!

Another connection is that Brough, just 6 miles from our hotel the Hull Ramada, is where Blackburn & General Aircraft Co Ltd were based. Aircraft components were made by Jowett for this company from 1953 to the close of Jowett Engineering in 1963. Blackburn bought Jowett Engineering in 1955 which enabled Jowett shareholders to be paid off in full, and perhaps also the oval web crank to be tooled up for and to go into production. It is often said that Jowett went bust, but it was not so.

 In the mid-to-late 1950s Eric Turner, a director both of Jowett and Blackburn, was the first owner-driver of the R4 Jupiter SWT 356 and was living in Elloughton near Brough, as incidentally was Jowett’s post-war managing director Arthur Jopling from 1960 until his death.  The ex-Motor Show R4 (recently of Norman Reeves, now owned by Keith Patchett JOAC magazine editior) was readied for the road by Jowett in July 1956 and officially transferred to Turner that November before being sold to Alf Thomas in July 1958. So the R4 would have spent two years domiciled in Brough. It was then Anne Neale’s car in the 6-hr Relay Race at Silverstone in August 1958.

 I interviewed Betty Jopling in Brough in 1988, crossing the Humber Bridge for the first time, for the book the Complete Jowett History.

The Blackburn & General Aircraft Co was founded by Yorkshireman Robert Blackburn in 1909.Over a hundred different types of Blackburn aeroplane were designed and manufactured, either at the Olympia Works in Leeds or later at their factory and aerodrome at Brough. The proximity of the Humber River meant they were well situated for the launching of seaplanes.

In 1960 the company became the Hawker Blackburns Division of the Hawker Siddeley Aviation, which in 1965 became Hawker Siddeley – Brough, and later part of the British Aerospace Kingston-Brough Division. Two of the company's best known aircraft are said to be the Hawk, used by the RAF as the Red Arrows aerobatic team, and the Harrier jump-jet; the world's only vertical take-off aeroplane, and it is all done with one engine!

The factory is still going in Brough under the name BAE Systems. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is a Blackburn Avenue a few hundred metres from the BAE Brough factory.

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