International Section- Australian Jowett Weekend

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:09 pm

A few poms are invading New South Wales.

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:01 pm

Below is the route from Melbourne or look at this possible route from Perth http://jowett.org/jowettnet/dt/club/wha ... madale.htm If you live nearby why not give us some encouragement or join us in a stubby when we stop.

PLANNED ROUTE TO AND FROM ARMIDALE
Date
Route Description
Distance

11th April
Depart Boronia and drive through Lilydale, Yea, Bonnie Doone, Benalla, Katamatite, over the River Murray near Cobram and into Tocumwal. This brings us into New South Wales and from here we drive through Finley and on to Jerilderie for our first night's stop. Jerilderie is a very old town with some fine country architecture and it also has some Ned Kelly bushranger history and other displays.
Motel Jerilderie Motor Inn, 4 Jerilderie Street, Jerilderie.
Telephone: (03) 5886 1360, Facsimile: (03) 5886 1235
231 miles.

12th April
Leave Jerilderie and drive through Narrandera, Grong Grong, Ardlethan, West Wyalong to Forbes. Forbes is another historic town and there is good accommodation choice.
Motel Comfort Inn Forbes, 22 Sherriff Street (Newell Hwy), Forbes
Telephone: (02) 6852 2466, Facsimile: (02) 6852 3237
221 miles.

13th April
Leave Forbes and drive through Parkes and Peak Hill. It is near here that there is the huge radio telescope that is worth a visit. Then it is on to Dubbo, Gilgandra to Coonabarabran.
Motel All Travellers Motor Inn, Newell Highway, Coonabarabran.
Telephone: (02) 6842 1133, Facsimile: (02) 6842 2505
171 miles.

14th April
Last leg! Leave Coonabarabran and drive through Mullaley, Gunnedah, Tamworth, Bendemeer, Uralla and finally when we reach Armidale it will be time to register for the National Rally..
169 miles.

15th April National Jowett Rally activities.
16th April National Jowett Rally activities. Presentation Dinner.

17th April
Depart Armidale and retrace our route to Gilgandra for over-night stop. Gilgandra is another old town.
Motel Orana Windmill Motel, 40 Warren Road, Gilgandra.
Telephone: (02) 6847 2404. Facsimile: (02) 6847 2844
241 miles.

18th April
Leave Gilgandra and drive through Dubbo, Wellington, Molong, Canowindra and stop overnight at Cowra.
Motel Country Haven Civic Motor Inn, Olympic Way, Young Road, Cowra.
Telephone: (02) 6341 1753, Facsimile: (02) 6342 3296
176 miles.

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:01 am

Final preparations taking place in Mike Allfrey's garage. Fuel guage was not working because the clip holding the panel light had fallen onto the terminal. Clip is now insulated.

Garage could not do the tracking; so Mike found two eight foot lengths of straight steel that we pressed against each tyre and a rule, so that we could measure the track parallelism.

Ted Cockrell is master polisher of the original paintwork on the Javelin.

Unfortunately we may need the windscreen wipers so will have to renew.

Looking foward to a meeting tomight of about 25 Jowett members at Mike's house.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:39 pm

Hi every one.
We are setting off for the rally tomorrow with the full team,Jup,Jav and Bradford.It's about a 7 hr drive for the Javelin.
We have Bill And Marlene Lumb traveling with us.
The Jup has decided to drop oil from the left rear axle seal so I will have to fix that today.
Bloody thing is jealous of all the time spent on the javelin.

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:41 am

Mike has put some spare seals in, just in case you need them. We are just leaving.

dougie · Post by **dougie** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:41 pm

Just about set to go from Brisbane tomorrow.
We should be in Armidale on Thursday morning.We didn't have 25 Jowett people at home tonight ,only our Yorkshire guests the Lumb's and ourselves, but still a good time.A last minute inner oil seal on the Jupiter diff and a leaking oil pressure guage line on the Javelin.As for the Bradford ,there's nothing to go wrong with them ,is there.

Tony Fearn · Post by **Tony Fearn** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:35 pm

Hello all of you Down Under. Please keep up the postings about the Rally. I personally am finding them a good read. I'll bet a lot more of us will be able to 'live' the experience through what you all post on this site, even though we're not actually there.
Remember all this will be archived for the future.
Wishing you all a safe journey,
Tony.

Drummond Black · Post by **Drummond Black** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 4:29 pm

Yes - Like Tony I am following the news.. Keep it coming

ian Howell · Post by **ian Howell** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:15 pm

Lots of us are with you in spirit! I am sure there are also many who watch, but do not make comment. Have a safe trip.

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:13 pm

Its over

. but we all had a hectic time. The format is quite different to UK JAW with the inevitable reception barby on Friday night, the concourse followed by brilliant historical and foundry museum visits and AGM and dinner on Saturday, with observation run and driving tests and presentation dinner on Sunday, optional museum visit on Monday.
Hopefully we will have reports from the exploits of all getting to, during and returning from the rally.
This report from my Best man's place in Newcastle NSW.
Many, many thanks to all the very hospitable Aussies who put up with the poms jibes during the event.

dougie · Post by **dougie** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:29 am

You wern't as much trouble as we thought

I think everyone had a good time and it was great to have you all.
The 10 hour drive home and a 7AM start this morning in my buisness, has made me so tired ,I just went to sleep holding a glass of orange juice and spilt it all in my lap.The family are up stairs laughing about it still.

Both the Jav and Jupe made it home without any trouble except a bit of overheating with the Javelin on the long hills.
About 670 miles completed over the event from home to home.
After 5 yrs in the shed the Javelin had a lot of work done in the run up to the rally and even on the night before we were still working with the help of our guest Bill Lumb.There was no time for proper road testing so as Bill said ,the Brakes were crap ,the steering was crap and the gear box was crap,but it got us there.When we bled the brakes again they got quite good for the trip home.

Our Bradford was a big hit and won the best Bradford award.
My son Chris won the motorkahana with me taking second, we had the Jupiter flying and the tyres protesting on the cement surface.
I don't know what the revs were,I was to buisy to look.
A great rally and it was good to put faces to the names we had heard about from overseas.

Keith Clements · Post by **Keith Clements** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:00 am

Pictures are now available on the the jowett.net website. Hopefully they will be copied to the jowett.org site tonight. Please reference them in JowettTalk either from jowett.net or the jowett.org site when they become available there. Note the jowett.net site at my home may be slow.

http://jowett.org/jowettnet/dt/magazine/j1-magazine.htm

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