Solved - MJW #016 - Jowett Jupiter with Beverley Motors coachwork

[woodinsight]

This may be difficult - not for the car it was based on but who built the body?
Okay - one point for the car and another for the coachbuilder is on offer

[woodinsight]

Any more suggestions from the rookies before I move it up?

[woodinsight]

Now in Experts section

[Carnut]

Those wheels look very Triumph TR2 to me.
Is this a coachbilt TR2?

[woodinsight]

Not Triumph TR2 but it is British.....

[Tom_I]

I'm fixating on those wheels as well. Is it a Bristol?

[barrett]

The wheels got me too, but I reckon it might be a Jowett Jupiter?

[woodinsight]

It is a Jowett Jupiter!
One point for barrett.

The tricky part now is who built the body

[barrett]

Well I know who didn't do it!

Is the coachbuilder from mainland Europe?

[woodinsight]

European yes but closer to where you are based I think!

[barrett]

hmm, if it's from the UK then that makes it harder!

From a 'known' coachbuilder?

[woodinsight]

Coachbuilder is British but not a well known name

[woodinsight]

Allemano - keep smiling your turn may yet come!

[Carnut]

Adams & Robinson?

[woodinsight]

Good guess but not that

[Carnut]

Coachcraft?

[woodinsight]

Not Coachcraft.
This is a difficult one so a couple of clues -
The coachbuilder is named after a girl or boy's first name and it is also the name of a small town in Yorkshire near Hull. However they were not situated there!

[Amsterdam]

I see a small town in Yorkshire near Hull with a boy AND a girl name:
Kirk Ella?

[Tom_I]

Beverley, perhaps?

[Carnut]

Damn - I'm just not quick enough.
Think I'll have to retire and sit on the site 24 hours a day to get any points!
This one was tailor-made for me as I live near Hull and my wife has the White Rabbit Chocolate shop in Beverley (if anyone wants to buy any top-quality chocolate on the Internet - all  handmade by her fair hand and scrumptious - NO Cadburys or Hersheys here!)
Perhaps I'd better stick to the chocolate..

[woodinsight]

Good guess Amsterdam but not that.

Beverley is correct!
The title is Beverley Motors of New Malden, Surrey.
I haven't seen any other examples of their work.

One point for Tom_I

Better luck next time Carnut

[Carnut]

I see a small town in Yorkshire near Hull with a boy AND a girl name:
Kirk Ella?

Kirk Ella (or Kirkella) is actually a very expensive suburb of west Hull and is just a small village with a shop, church and pub!
Definitely NO coachworks - ever!

[Carnut]

You might not have realised when you posted your clue, Woodinsight, but Jowett has various Hull connections.
One Jupiter was built by local coachbuilder Barnaby Bodybuilders (long gone) but Jowett near its end was actually bought by Blackburn Aircraft Co of Brough, just outside Hull.  They made the Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft, amongst others, and more recently the Harrier and Hawk.  They are still a big company, part of BAe.  Contrary to popular opinion Jowett did not go bankrupt but Blackburns paid off all the company's outstanding debts, but unfortunately wound it up soon after.

The Jowett R4 was used for a time by the MD of both Blackburn Aircraft and Jowett, Eric Turner, who lived in Elloughton, another expensive village in the East Yorkshire countryside near Hull.

Also living in Elloughton from 1960 until his death was long-time Managing Director of Jowett, Arthur Jopling.

[fnqvmuch]

The Jowett R4 was used for a time by the MD of both Blackburn Aircraft and Jowett, Eric Turner, who lived in Elloughton, another expensive village in the East Yorkshire countryside near Hull.

one of the few images i can find of the R4 shows it being driven into something like a Beverley, but i think it is instead a twin engined 'tail dragger' with a more normal empennage ... now if i could just identify the plane i might find a better version of the scene ... the R4 is a real beauty, imho, and one i can't find enough on.
thanks in anticipation (and sorry for highjacking),
steven

[Carnut]

Sure all info is gratefully received and of interest!