The Jowett Javelin was an award-winning Britishcar that was produced from 1947 to 1953 by Jowett of Bradford. The model went through five variants labelled PA to PE, each having a standard and "de luxe" option. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Jowett was a car marque from Bradford, England from 1906 to 1954. ... Bradford is a city in the northern English county of Yorkshire, and the major settlement in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District of West Yorkshire. ...
The car was designed by Gerald Palmer during World War II and was intended to be a major leap forward following the rather staid designs of pre-war Jowetts. The flat four overhead valve engine of 1486 cc with a compression ratio of 7.2:1 was water-cooled and had an aluminium block and wet cylinder liners. It developed 50 bhp (52.5 bhp on the PE) at 4100 rpm giving the car a maximum speed of 77 mph and a 0-50 mph time of 13.4 seconds. Two Zenith carburettors were fitted and PA and PB versions had hydraulic tappets. The radiator was behind the engine. A four speed gearbox with column change was used. An early example class-won the Monte Carlo Rally of 1949 whilst another won the 2-litre touring-car class at the Spa 24-hour race that same year. The 1952 RAC Rally was class-won by a Javelin, which also took the Best Closed Car award. Gerald Marley Palmer was a British car designer born in 1911 and died in 1999. ...
Design features included aerodynamic styling with the headlights faired into the wings and, for the time, a steeply sloped windscreen. The body was of pressed steel, incorporating a box section chassis with torsion-bar suspension on all wheels (independent at the front)and internal gear and pinion steering. PA and PB models had mixed Girling hydraulic (at the front) and mechanical braking (at the rear), later versions were fully hydraulic. Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of gas flows, first analysed by George Cayley in the 1800s. ...
The car had a wheelbase of 102 inches and a track of 51 inches. Overall the car was 14 feet long, 5 feet wide and weighed about 1 ton (depending on model and year).
Jowett was a car marque from Bradford, England from 1906 to 1954.
Jowett first exhibited at the London Motor Show in 1921 and gradually broke out of their previous local market.
Javelins were designed for production levels never before attempted by Jowett with Javelin and Bradford body production out-sourced to Briggs Motor Bodies who built a special plant at Doncaster.
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