Jowett Annual Weekend, Basingstoke 24-27 May 2013

[k. rogers]

Just an observation regarding the concours points system - I have felt for some time that the sections should be better 'weighted'; perhaps we ought to be sourcing how national concours judges use their own organisations points scoring. For example, how can a tool kit score the same points as the paintwork on a well restored car knowing the skill and preparation needed to achieve a 'concours' finish?

[Forumadmin]

Keep the comments coming. Everyone has views. If the owner did the paintwork themselves then it should be highly scored compared to a professional job. An original toolkit is actually more difficult to have than a good paint job.

[AlanBartlett]

Perhaps not the topic for it but, where does it stop? You can have an original car which has been looked after un molested or majorly changed, or you can have a practically new car, where the only thing original is the registration? Which I know certainly with the MGs you can buy pretty much every part out of a catalogue and bring it up to a concours standard for a fair sum. But I guess to a degree a concours is mainly about high standards Id imagine...not really looked much into it. Even so depending on the age of the how high were the standards back then? Due to materials available back then and now.

[Forumadmin]

It is time to start thinking about your period look for the 25th May!
Ladies have a look at this
or blokes at this

If you have not already done so please send the details of the Jowett you will be bringing to Tom Chapman or Chris Spencer or Keith Clements. If it is not with us this week it will not be in the program.
We need the model, year of manufacture and registration number of the vehicle.

I have had some positive feedback on getting some local ale from Andwells for our imbibing at the event. Please can you let me know by email which you would prefer from Resolute Bitter, Gold Muddler, King John or Ruddy Darter. Tasting notes are here http://www.andwells.com/beers . We will also be getting a selection of bottles in so, if you have any preference, let me know.

[Chris Spencer]

Ok - Four weeks and counting - here is the latest rally update:

JOWETT INTERNATIONAL RALLY 24TH MAY – 27TH MAY 2013
BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE
90th ANNIVERSARY of THE JCC –‘THE WORLDS OLDEST ONE MAKE CAR CLUB’

Weekend Joining Instructions –

Hotel address:
The Hampshire Court Hotel
Centre Drive
Great Binfields Road
Chineham
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 8FY
01256 319700
hampshirecourtreception@QHotels.co.uk

From the M4 junction 11 take the A33 south to Basingstoke
From the M3 junction 6 take the A30 then the A33 north to Basingstoke
Reception – 1400 hours to 18.30 hours
Drinks & leisure facilities available (spa treatments must be advance booked)
Pre dinner drinks at 18.30 hours for dinner at 19.30 hours
A briefing for the weekend shall follow dinner prior to the evenings entertainment

Museum address / Rally venue
The Milestones Museum
Leisure Park
Churchill Way West
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG22 6PG

There are brown tourist signs marked ‘Leisure Park’ from M3 junction 6 & from the centre of Basingstoke

Contact numbers: Should you need to contact the rally committee throughout the weekend please call: Chris – 07967 461050 or Keith 07973 850842

Rally Entry / Attendance – (Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th May 2013) Should you not be booked on the weekend, you are still welcome to attend & support the rally days in person there are no charges involved, if you would like to bring a Jowett vehicle again you shall be made most welcome but entry to the rally field for your vehicle is by the purchase of a rally pack which are available by advance order and can be collected on the day – rally packs are charged at £10 and covers both days – please order though myself

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL VEHICLES MUST BE ON THE RALLY FIELD BY 1100 HOURS AND NO VEHICLE CAN LEAVE THE RALLY FIELD UNTIL 1600 HOURS

Raffle Tickets – The proceeds from raffle sales directly supports the club, please help in selling as many as you can – if you would like additional books please contact myself , could you also ensure that ticket stubbs & raffle monies are forwarded to Julie Blow (Contact details are printed on the stubbs)

Volunteers -We are still seeking volunteers to help with the various rally tasks, booking in, rally marshals, concours judges, raffle sales & general help

Period Dress - We would like as many members as possible in period dress for rally day – see the February ‘Jowetteer’ for ideas & sources of period dress, Judging shall be undertaken during rally day with special prizes for children, male, female, & couple

Sections / Displays / Marquee – We have several of the sections attending on rally day with stands / displays along with the Jowett Shop, Jowett Juniors & Jowett Spares, There will be an area within the marquee for parts / spares sales – so if want to have to a clear out – bring your items with you – all that we ask is that you make a 10% donation of your sale price to rally funds

Awards – Please could you ensure that all trophies are returned in a clean, safe condition to the rally committee (see page 7- April 2013 Jowetteer)

WE HAVE A GREAT VENUE, THE WEATHER IS BOOKED – IT JUST NEEDS YOU (IN YOUR PERIOD DRESS) & YOUR JOWETTS TO MAKE THIS A FANTASTIC RALLY
Chris Spencer – Top Floor, 208 Fernhead Road, Maida Vale, London. W9 3EJ
07967 461050 / 0208 962 0797

[Chris Spencer]

Hope you have all been busy getting your cars ready along with your period outfits !! - we (rally committee) are just putting the final instructions in place for what we plan to be a fantastic rally - looking forward to seeing you all there

Amy, Sharon, Julie, Keith, Jack & Chris

[Chris Spencer]

Its all happening - Myself, Keith & Andy Blow met at the rally venue yesterday to set a visual display up in the museum and make final decisions on the rally field layout

Our rally venue

Banner attached to Museum fence line which just happens to be on one Basingstoke's busiest through routes

And another banner placed (after much paperwork with Hampshire county highways department) on to a bridge over the main A30 dual carriageway through Basingstoke

[Tony Fearn]

Last time we were down at Basingstoke, a number of members were seen to be going up and down the dual carriage in the wrong direction as they were trying to locate the hotel on the first day.

The approach is rather confusung, if I remember correctly.

Chris:- I'm coming from the west via A339 then A33. Can you give details of the way to the hotel from the Binfields roundabout please. Are there two ways of approaching the hotel, I've forgotten?

In the past, and occasionally, directions very close to Rally venues were picked out by small fluorescent marker pennants attached to small stakes with JCC on them pointing the way. Is this possible?

Tony.

[Jack]

Hi Tony,

We can certainly try to assist, we have markers that could be used if we can find an appropriate place to put them at the required junctions - it all depends if we can get to the right spot so that they are visible from a roundabout etc.

Google is very good for directions on this http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=hampshi ... a=N&tab=wl hopefully with postcode RG24 8FY you won't go far wrong, but I'm sure the team that know the hotel better can advise a "best route".

Regards,

Jack.

[Forumadmin]

Having driven the route yesterday to check, this is a navigator's view.

Roundabouts, slip roads and multi-laned junctions abound in Basingstoke so it is not as simple as rights and lefts!

The first thing to get in your head is that Basingstoke is circled by a ring road.
The next thing,, if you have any sense of spatial awareness and a sense of direction, is that the hotel is in the North East corner of this big ring road.
The third thing is that the hotel is on the A33 going North East towards Reading, so look out for those signs and this will help your lane discipline at the roundabouts and junctions. (This is particularly true when going around the ring road from the M3 where two left filters appear in quick succession, take the second signposted A33 Reading)
Once on the A33 after leaving the ring road, you should go through a set of traffic lights on the dual carriageway and then onto a roundabout where you continue right or third exit on the A33.

The next roundabout, BINFIELDS, is the important one as you must take the fourth exit where you hopefully are directed by the Hampshire Court hotel sign. The third exit takes you to Tescos!

You continue straight along this road (although it does do a long left hand sweep), through a set of traffic lights and a roundabout (1st exit) , then take the third left into the hotel. I will guarantee you will not miss the hotel entrance as there will be a big Jowett Banner.

Going to Milestones also needs all the above skills of lane discipline but this time think you are aiming for the West side of the ring road. From the hotel find your way back to the ring road and aim to go west not south along it (this is the fifth exit on the roundabout over the ring road, so keep counting). Follow signs to Leisure Centre which will be before the next roundabout (make sure you get in the left lane).

You are now travelling south and at the next roundabout you will take the third exit and see a giant Jowett banner and the rally field (but you are not there yet!). At the next roundabout you are doubling back on yourself. Do not exit into the leisure centre but follow the sign to Milestones which is left just as you rejoin the dual carriageway. Hopefully you will now smell the Jowetts and follow your way right, left, U turn and left into the rally field.

It is also worth knowing that the city is bisected east to west by Churchill Way on which Milestones is situated but outside the ring road. There are some road works on this road in the centre of the town and some signs to the Leisure Centre (or your sat-nav) may take you along Churchill Way. Worth avoiding.

[Chris Spencer]

And for when you have lost the bit of paper with all that written on, forgotten which way to turn, haven't got a sat nav and when you have - you have nowhere in your Jowett to charge it and it's fallen off the windscreen anyway and is now somewhere under the seat where you cant reach it Ahh !!! - and there's nobody else in a Jowett in front of you to follow and if there is they are lost too - Just simply follow the JCC arrows that I printed up today - I will ensure that they are erected on the junctions leading up to the hotel from the A33 Simples !

[Tony Fearn]

Thanks Chris.

Just returned from my Tuesday night at The Forts Arms with 'the boys' and read Keith's post first, so I was going to read it again in the morning as it was a bit complicated, and I didn't know if he was answering my specific query.

He say:- 'Roundabouts, slip roads and multi-laned junctions abound in Basingstoke so it is not as simple as rights and lefts'!

Then I read your post

Quod erat demonstrandum!

Tony.

[Forumadmin]

We are doing as much as we can to mitigate risks! Please follow the suggestion that you have a picture of where you are going in your head. There are some junctions where you will get into trouble if you do the usual in a slow car of staying in the left lane as you will be forced off the direction you want to go in.

You may miss a Jowett arrow hidden behind a bus or some kind kid will turn it around! This happened sometimes on rallies, particularly in Wales.

Jack did suggest a route that did not go on the ring road but I tried it and it was blighted by a dozen traffic lights and mini roundabouts.

The next roundabout, BINFIELDS, is the important one as you must take the fourth exit where you hopefully are directed by the Hampshire Court hotel sign. The third exit takes you to Tescos!

You continue straight along this road (although it does do a long left hand sweep), through a set of traffic lights and a roundabout (1st exit) , then take the third left into the hotel. I will guarantee you will not miss the hotel entrance as there will be a big Jowett Banner.

Below is the roundabout over the ring road which you will be on if you have come from the M3 or when you are going to milestones from the hotel. If coming from the hotel then you are looking at the third exit and you will be taking the fifth which is the Ring road, A339 . Note that if you were coming from the M3 you need to get in one of the two right hand lanes to get to the hotel. Click on the picture for a more detailed view.

[Chris Spencer]

Lets keep it simple, just follow the direction arrows and it will all be fine

[Forumadmin]

Are on their way in the Jupiter and Javelin from Denmark , 1000 miles of driving to go....wish them luck. Ib only finished rebuilding the engine yesterday!