If I can put my oar in I suggest the Austin A70 was just as good looking as the Javelin,
and it sold well. See: https://www.google.com.au/search?source=hp
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Said to have the original Austin 16 engine. My father had an Austin 16 - he was only
allowed to purchase it on the guarantee that it would be exported as soon as he went back
to sea again. One major and very worthwhile innovation - built in hydraulic jack. Could
be switched to jack up left or right, or front or rear, and IIRC, all four wheels at once.
My uncle had a phase 1 Standard Vanguard - an excellent car - which outlasted the Javelin
and the A70 by far. Just as good looking as the Javelin - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard. My father then had a Triumph Mayflower
after he retired, a good car to drive and on which my mother learnt to drive. Lasted well
until my father took a corner too fast and tried to drive it up a tree - or so the story
goes.
I will shut up now lest I incur the wrath of our moderator. Suffice it to say that these
cars were so good and so cheap that for most people it did not seem to matter that the
LPTB and then the LTE were sending our trams to the scrap heap.
Regards
Dudley
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From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, 13 October 2017 6:00 PM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Geelong - the Tramway Centre
As usual, these terrific Geelong pics have more of interest than immediately meets the
eye.
The car in the bottom left of the picture is none other than the rare and unusually
advanced for its day Jowett Javelin, one of the many could-have-been-awesome products of
the postwar British car and motorcycle industry. The Javelin's motorcycle equivalent is
probably the BSA made Sunbeam S7/8, intended to be a "BMW beating luxury tourer", but
wasn't up to it :
Great
<https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/features/great-motoring-disasters-jowett-javeli
n/> Motoring Disasters: Jowett Javelin | Motoring Research
About https://www.stewartengineering.co.uk/sunbeams.asp Sunbeam Motorcycles
Tony G
On 13 Oct 2017, at 12:02 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder]
TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
Geelong's 'Tramway Centre' was at the intersection of Moorabool and
Ryrie St where there was a double track H crossing.
Today's pic looks south across that intersection - towards Belmont. The
double track ends immediately after the intersection.
Also shown is one of the two traffic lights unique to Geelong - this set
with a sign advising a Melbourne style 'hook turn'.
Mal Rowe - no stranger to hook turns
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