Wanted ,Generator set

[dougie]

We would like to get a Jowett built generator set or a stationery engine to restore and display.
Any help would be appreciated.

[TedAllen]

Hi Dougie
I bought 3 wartime generator sets some years ago from a local engineering firm. I advertised them in the Jowetteer and sold them, together with a 1937 8HP to Mike Eames, who I think lives in Kent.
I don't know what he did with them.
Postage to OZ might be a bit prohibitive though.
Ted

[Keith Clements]

What we could do is fit the Jowett engine to a boat, fix up a sat nav auto pilot and send it to OZ.........anyone care to calculate how much fuel would be needed......now Mike Allfrey has such an engine that was fitted to a power boat

[TedAllen]

Or a remote controlled plane...I don't think in either case that the engine would produce enough HP to carry the amount of fuel needed.
Just a bit more, I rescued these jennys cos I thought they might be of use to a Bradford owner but they were almost totally different. The crankcase had no provision for a starter motor. There was no place for a dynamo or distributor, starting handle and magneto sufficed. Cooling was by thermo syphon. The generator ran off a short shaft bolted to the flywheel. The fuel tank was on top of the jenny, together with the electrical bits at the back.
Ted

[Tony Fearn]

I've also got a couple of these in various states of disassemblement at the back of one of the garages. Harry Brierley gave me one of them many years ago. They are only engines, but one of them has some sort of angle iron frame with a lidded tool box that fits across the top.

I think John Stockwell collates all the info on these stationary engines on behalf of the JCC.

Perhaps a separate subject heading might glean more interesting data than the Argentinian, or even the Jowett Junior sites are doing at the moment.

P.S. to Dougie:-

Somewhere I have an instruction book for the Jowett WP engine. I haven't a clue as to where, but if you need a photocopy of it, I'll search all the usual places.

Regards, Tony.

[dougie]

I have the Bradford set up with electrical contractors signage and tools etc.With the trailor we would like to have matching and I can think of nothing better to carry to shows than a Jowett stationery eng driving a working generator.The gen can be found in OZ but a proper Jowett stationery eng would be brilliant.Doesn't matter what it is like as long as all the bits are there.I know a couple of importers who import from England and I think if I asked them they might be able to load it in with other stuff for Australia.
PS we can fix anything in OZ,they fixed me!

[Robin Fairservice]

I have an instruction book for a Jowett WP engine that came from the person who sold me my Javelin. I have kept is as a curiosity, but it is of no use to me. If Dougie would like it I could send it, as thanks for the ride last year.

[Tony Fearn]

Thanks Robin. That will save me a lot of heartache trying to find my book to copy.

Regards,

Tony.

[dougie]

Thanks Robin,I will let you know if I get an engine.A book would be very useful.

[David Morris]

Hi there,

I purchased one of these engines back in the late 60's from Charlie Dodd, who let me select one from a pile of about 12 that were stacked at his place in Kent. This was a true Jowett Treasure Trove!! You name it, Charlie had them by the score. On the way down to his sheds, you walked past Jupiter chassis's and then entered his Jowett 'sweet shop'.

The engine, complete with magneto, carb ( which is updraught ) and governor, came without the frame and I think it drove a generator or maybe a pump, guessing from the fabric coupling attached to the flywheel.

Tony Fearn kindly let me have a copy of the Handbook mentioned above, and I have been meaning to get around to building a frame, adding a fuel tank and radiator and getting it running for ages.

Some years later, I sourced a second engine from near Lincoln. This set had a massive flywheel ( it is almost too heavy to lift! ) with an integral multi-grooved pulley. I believe this one drove a saw bench but it had been used very hard and the bearings are shot.

I have the best of the two engines in bits, and really must get around to making it up into a demonstration set, perhaps mounted on a trailer. I have an ex-RAF DC generator which I intended to couple to the engine, to replicate it as a generator set. Come to think of it now, and also making it earn it's keep, it could be the basis of a future TIG welder......

According to Jowett's War Production History, they made 5332 2 cyl. engines for the Government during the war, at a total value of £763,410 ( goodness know what this would be worth today! ) and I believe they were used fairly extensively for cement pumps, searchlight generators, saw benches etc. Some also went to the Navy, as Generating Sets.

I wish Dougie all the best in his hunt, and if I can help with any photos etc., just let me know.

All the best,

David

[Robin Fairservice]

On page 62 of the March 2007 issue of the English magazine "Automobile" there is a reference to a yard in Victoria that has a large number of stationary engines. Is this known about in Australia?

[Keith Andrews]

When we where in Adelade last yr, we visited Tim and his wife in the hills.
While in his workshop discussing bradford engines, he pionted out a bradford engine to replace one already being used to pump his water.