Jupiter Seat Information

[Mike Allfrey]

At present I am sort of working on putting together as much information as I can muster on the seat framework and its upholstery (padding and covering). My Jupiter suffered the usual early 1960s bucket seats conversion using MGA seat backs and homemade seat cushions using a plywood base, crude foam padding and the leather from a Rover that was in a local scrapyard, a P4 I think. All too soon I realised that the work was not really necessary, but I stuck with it and left the original seat for George Mitchell to collect after we departed for Australia.

Then the re-build started and a genuine style seat was very desirable. Sue wondered why, as soon as we were married, I had opted for separate seats! I then resolved to revert to the original style. Luckily Tony George needed to make up a complete seat for his Jupiter project and he communicated with Reg. Gilbert in Canada and somehow Bill Farrar became involved in the provision of information. Tony fabricated a set of frames for both our Jupiter projects.

I have in my Jowett Drawings suspension filing cabinet, seven sheets of A4 paper with what appear to be hasty sketches and hand written notes. These are fairly faded and appear to be copies of copies. I can only assume that these are by Bill Farrar, anyway, he is being credited for creating them! The sketches have been scanned and each sketch cleaned up using Corel PaintShop Pro X8, a user-friendly photo editing software. It is my intention to sort the loose sheets into some semblance of order and place each sketch into a MS Word document with my interpreted version of the handwriting alongside.

Now, it gets quite interesting, the sketches clearly show steel longitudinal brackets under the seat base to tilt the seat upwards at the front while sitting on the flat floor. That is, as I distinctly remember, different from the mountings in my car (E0SA42R), because my original seat sat on triangular shaped longitudinal timber bearers that raised the front of the seat base.

This causes me some confusion, because if this project to get the Jupiter seat 'on CD-R', moves on further, we need to be sure that we ar providing authentic information to future would-be seat frame fabricators. This is now very important, because Philip Dingle has offered to produce CAD information about the Jupiter seat, and we gratefully thank him for the offer.

I suppose I can post a copy of my MS Word document, when it is sorted and finished. Maybe my Jupiter's seat was an early version and, if so, we need to find out when metal replaced the wood bearers?? I suppose that fits in with my wooden door cappings - one has just three securing screws, the other has four, both have a '6' written on the under side, as has the dashboard on its front face! The body Number is 7A - make of that what you wish!

Comments and assistance please.

Mike Allfrey.

[Keith Clements]

TOPIC A legacy project album has been set up in the Jowett Gallery here.
This is a working album so all can contribute by posting new items or adding comments.

This JowettTalk topic can be used for discussing the 'Jupiter Seat' legacy sub-project with references to the Gallery items made using links generated by 'SHOW URLS' see this screenshot. Click on the + sign at the bottom of the thumbnail frame for the item to see the linking options.

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This link in your posting looks like this and tells the JowettTalk software what to do.

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[Keith Clements]

You can also now use the g2Img button to insert BBCODE that refers to a Gallery item. As I have added this morning the ability to use TIFF files into the Gallery which for the last 10 years has not been possible!




Click the g2Img just below the Subject box of a post and when you navigate to the Legacy Album in the pop-up box you should get something like this.

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You can select the type of link you want. The one above is the 'Thumbnail with link to image' one.
Then select one or more of the thumbnails by checking the tick box in its top left corner.
Then click 'Submit' at the bottom.

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