Wigan Album
standard vanguard
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Photo: fred foster
Item #: 8515
I well remember the Vanguard, in the 1950's even the Yanks at Burtonwood were using them, supplied by the Air Ministry there was a lot of them plus 4 wheel Ford trucks with steel tipper bodies. In the 1980's I sometimes delivered scrap from Metal Box Works to a forge at Kiveton Park near Wales, a few miles South of Sheffield and in a field near the forge was about a dozen Vanguard saloons and Estate cars,some were in a bad way yet others seemed OK. I wonder if the guy still deals in them. E.T.
The red & white Vanguard van in the distance on this pic, was one I used to drive, early 60's.
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It was powered by a Ferguson tractor diesel (Standard high speed diesel). It also had overdrive, & given that commercial untaxed diesel was 1/6d per gallon, pretty economical.....Until they brought in coloured fuel & taxed the clear stuff..;o)
It appears that the url I posted doesn't work. Anyway, it's in> Photos of Wigan> street scenes> Gidlow Avenue
do you remember the Jowett Javelin, that was a stylish car for its day,
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Not worked again Art sorry!
My brother,Bill, had a Jowett for his first car, He paid one of his college pals £10 for it! We once had that car doing 80mph on the newly opened Preston bypass piece of the M6. A later car of his was an ex Navy vanguard shooting brake. He canniballised 3 more vanguards for spares and at one time had a gearbox with 8 changes in it!
I can remember the Jowett van of Charnock's Stores,Liverpool Road, Hindley,driven by my mate Donald Purnell and another friend had a Jowett Jupiter, sports version of the Javelin, this was Barry Ashton, son of Arnold who had the garage at the end of Bickershaw Lane,Platt Bridge. Jowetts factory was at a place with the unusual name of Idle, Bradford. E.T.
I worked on these cars during my apprenticeship at Timberlakes in Library St,they were the main dealers for them.I have 1 or 2 usefull contacts.Mail me if you have no luck yourself
Dad had a standard vanguard when we were kids remember going to Birkdale in it leather bench seats pale blue registration HEK 75. Great car. You could climb on it and not leave a dent not that we would havedone such a thing