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Hi Scott,
Looking at the colour of the wheel above it is different from the one I have from a later Jav. The colour of the marbling is more of a silver on this one.
Bryan

G'dday,

Just to further confound the discussion. For my Jupiter, which lost its plastic very soon after coming to OZ, I had the wheel done for me by Lancaster Wheelrights. Apparently, the Jupiter rim had them stumped, as they did not have a mould that was the samw - spoke orientation and rim sectional diameter (?).

They finally used a Vauxhall mould, which resulted in a rim slightly thicker. I was worried about at the time the discussion took place and finally told them to go ahead. I had sent a sample piece of the seat leather, because if marbling was not possible, that was my first choice. Lancaster also treated the hub the same colour.

The end result has worked well.

I'll get out of your way now,

Mike Allfrey.

I have in my possesion the original Bluemels steering wheel taken from the Monte Carlo Javelin driven by Marcel Bequart ( apologies if spelt wrong ) which has a marbelled effect on it.
Should this be of use to anyone for a colour pattern then I will forward pictures of it.

Hi Keil, Please register on JowettGallery and post your pictures there. It is a good idea to use your real name so we can have a human conversation. Jowett Gallery is secure and only open to Jowett Car Club or affiliated club members. Alternatively email them to webmaster.

Nothing to do with the steering wheel, but Keith's mention of 'many mods' by Ben Shaw reminds me that he had a new set of bonnet hinges cast in bronze (he said - not brass).

I recall he also fitted out his Javelin with a 'spares' kit under a false floor to the boot, which was raised by a couple of inches so it was level with the lid of the tool box.

In here there were a set of wheel bearings, main and big end bearings, con rods and pistons (I think) plus fan belt, valves, etc. All this in preparation for his daughter taking the car on the continent on honeymoon - again -I think.

PJGD might remember more?

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A broken link or outdated software?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

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.

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.