Hello All,
Does anyone know when speedometers were first introduced in Jowett motor cars:
Date of first prototype installation?
Date first introduced in a production car?
Driven by front wheel?
I have been asked these questions, but I do not know.
Thank you in advance,
Mike Allfrey (Melbourne, Australia).
Speedometers In Early Jowett Motor Cars
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Mike Allfrey
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Speedometers In Early Jowett Motor Cars
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k. rogers
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Re: Speedometers In Early Jowett Motor Cars
Not sure about earliest Jowett to have speed, but I do know most of the twenties ones had a Stewart speedometer driven by cable from a gear mechanism belt-driven off the prop-shaft.
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Tony Fearn
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Re: Speedometers In Early Jowett Motor Cars
Hello Mike and Ken.
The photo below was taken at the 2013 Basingstoke Rally.
On the inside of the off-side front wheel is a sprocket.
I wonder whether it was used to drive a speedometer. M. Kav.. could confirm, but he doesn't do JowettTalk.
Some makes used this to drive a windscreen wiper, but on the tiller-steered Jowett it looks like the latter is hand twist only. You'll have to enlarge it.
Tony.
The photo below was taken at the 2013 Basingstoke Rally.
On the inside of the off-side front wheel is a sprocket.
I wonder whether it was used to drive a speedometer. M. Kav.. could confirm, but he doesn't do JowettTalk.
Some makes used this to drive a windscreen wiper, but on the tiller-steered Jowett it looks like the latter is hand twist only. You'll have to enlarge it.
Tony.
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