family’s Jowett Javelin in January’s Readers’ Rides article caught my eye. Without being a Jowett enthusiast I’ve long believed that the modest Yorkshire-based Jowett outfit is well entitled to an honourable place in British automotive history. How impressive was it that in 1946 the tiny Jowett business had the imagination and the confidence to launch the then-radical Javelin, an all-steel bodied six-seater sedan with aerodynamic styling, riding on full torsion-barto an unproven in-house manufactured gearbox. With its reputation mortally wounded it was finally “Time gentlemen, please!” for Javelin production in 1953, a vehicle that deserved much better given its game-changing potential.
