At the risk of everyone saying "Not again!!", the topic of steering wheels is back. Chasing my Holy Grail again. I have a couple of artiste types willing to indulge my quest.
I searched through this thread to review photos, but they do not display, just the word "image" where the photo should be.
A broken link or outdated software?
Anyone found more photos of original wheels?
Thanks,
Scott
Need photos of Jowett Bluemel Wheel
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Re: Need photos of Jowett Bluemel Wheel
Aha that is because the images were on the VERY old jowett site which was moved into jowett.org when it started up, but the links were not updated. Now done so you should see.
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Re: Need photos of Jowett Bluemel Wheel
Dear Scott,
For what it may be worth, here is a photograph of the steering wheel in my Jupiter. The wheel itself is an original Jupiter steering wheel. The original plastic rim broke up and I had the wheel rebuilt by a company in England called Wheelwrights who, sand blasted the rusty steel inner rim and then cast an aluminium rim onto the wheel assembly. The mould they used was for one of the Vauxhall rims and is a little bit thicker in section. After dressing the casting, they coated it with some sort of plastic, I sent them a sample piece of the seat's leather for colour selection purposes - which they matched very well. The centre hub (splined, not keyed) was also coated in the same plastic as the rim. To date it has worked very well. A Vauxhall rim mould was used because it was closest to the original with respect to spoke layout.
The horn push is, I think, Javelin PE and it depicts the Bradford coat of arms - the Horn of Plenty. I like it and it works well for me. Apparently an image to be posted in here has to be at least zero pixels wide, and, zero pixels high -- what ever that means. My Nikon is set to 'Fine' quality, so there should be more than enough pixels in the image!
Sorry, I have no idea how to insert a photograph. I have tried 'Copy' and 'Paste', but of course that does not work for me! Apparently an image has to be zero pixels wide and
Best wishes and good luck!!!
Mike Allfrey.
For what it may be worth, here is a photograph of the steering wheel in my Jupiter. The wheel itself is an original Jupiter steering wheel. The original plastic rim broke up and I had the wheel rebuilt by a company in England called Wheelwrights who, sand blasted the rusty steel inner rim and then cast an aluminium rim onto the wheel assembly. The mould they used was for one of the Vauxhall rims and is a little bit thicker in section. After dressing the casting, they coated it with some sort of plastic, I sent them a sample piece of the seat's leather for colour selection purposes - which they matched very well. The centre hub (splined, not keyed) was also coated in the same plastic as the rim. To date it has worked very well. A Vauxhall rim mould was used because it was closest to the original with respect to spoke layout.
The horn push is, I think, Javelin PE and it depicts the Bradford coat of arms - the Horn of Plenty. I like it and it works well for me. Apparently an image to be posted in here has to be at least zero pixels wide, and, zero pixels high -- what ever that means. My Nikon is set to 'Fine' quality, so there should be more than enough pixels in the image!
Sorry, I have no idea how to insert a photograph. I have tried 'Copy' and 'Paste', but of course that does not work for me! Apparently an image has to be zero pixels wide and
Best wishes and good luck!!!
Mike Allfrey.
E0 SA 42R; Rover 75