1955 J type for sale.

A 1955 Morris JB is on e-bay at the moment, never seen this one in

"the flesh" looks a good one.

The van is located in Redruth Cornwall. It would be nice if the seller would list some more pictures of the van and some history as it's a fair distance to go to view.

There would be nothing to do to this van, its all been done.

Taxed till November 2009. Just take it to rallies and enjoy the drive.

First registered 13/10/1955 In Croydon South London.

e-bay Item No 250349776913.

It's now at £7500 but not yet hit the reserve, which has been lowered.

I wonder how high it will go, or how high the reserve is?

Who is looking at this blog?

The first weeks numbers.

Well the counter has been running for a week and I though I would share the numbers with you, it was also interesting to see how long people were stopping for. A few were only here for a few seconds, so not interested in Morris J types but I would like to thank the reader who read every entry and was online to this blog for over three and a half hours, did you fall asleep?

My I wish a Happy new year to all old vehicle owners!!

Another van needs a good home!

Well what a nice van to find, a bit of a film star it would seem, might have been used as a "donor" vehicle to keep another van "on the road" but its still a very good restoration project.
The original registration has been lost, so therefor its history is lost but I'm sure some one out there has a buff log book for sale, much better than a "Scottish" age related number. Do let me know if you have one for sale and I will pass your details on to the new owner. Further details of this van too follow. Keep watching....

Quiz Answers

These are all Underground Station names, Honest...

1, Warren Street, 2, Preston Road, 3,Bond Street, 4, Baker Street, 5, Chalk Farm, 6, Red Bridge, 7, Blackfriars, 8, Stockwell, 9, Old Street, 10, High Gate, 11, Cannonbury, 12, Grange Hill. 13, Tottenham Court Road, 14, Mile End, 15, Royal Oak, 16, Rayners lane, 17, Upminster, 18, Snaresbrook, 19, Barbican, 20, Greenford..

Well I hope you liked that and now back to J types.

Check out this new blog about a very early J van in Canada, you might think you have a challange with your J type, spare a thought for this J owner with only the second known J in his country.

http://www.victoriajvan.blogspot.com/

Might need wiper blades and a few light bulbs for the M.O.T. but I'm glad to say another J type found and is being saved and restored... Well done Charlie.

A Christmas Quiz

So your bored, you must be, to be reading this, when it is Christmas and you should be so busy helping around the home, decorating, out shopping for last few presents (don't forget me) and planning how to eat too much, lay off the drink if your driving please.

So here is a little quiz, to see how many London Tube stations you can remember from my clues.

1,Rabbits would feel at home here.

2,This might happen to a dead hedgehog.

3,Where 007 might live.

4,An elementary station.

5,Agricultural writing implement.

6,Colourful constuction.

7,A power cut in a chip shop.

8,Healthy herd on the farm.

9,It's not a new road.

10,A very tall entrance.

11,Put a clergyman underground.

12,Famous television school.

13, Small rum and pork on legal highway.

14,Roger Bannister got here in under 4 Mins.

15.King of trees.

16,Agony Aunt owns this byway.

17,To the top of the Cathedral.

18,Traps a stream.

19, Girls toy in a tin.

20,Environmental crossing.

Answers will posted shortly....well maybe in a couple of days!! Happy Christmas to you all.

Stuck for a present this Christmas?

How about a nice J type book?

Contact 

harvey@jtypevan.com

For price and p+p.

Paint colours and codes.

A current question doing the rounds of various www sites is "what were the original colours of a J type?"

Well my under standing is that when the 10 CWT van was launched (it got called a J type late 1952 early 1953) that it was available in four standard colours.

These were taken from the British Standard Range of Colours for Vehicles, which is B.S.381C standard. Each shade had a number and later a name!

Example the blue van would have a paint code of B.S.381C 107, later called strong blue.

Here is the list,

B.S.381C 107 "Strong Blue"

B.S.381C 221 "Brilliant Green"

B.S.381C 539 "Current Red"

B.S.381C 642 "Night"

G.P.O vehicles were,

B.S.381C 223 "Middle Bronze Green"

B.S.381C 538 "Post Office Cherry Red".

Any car paint supplier should be able to mix the correct colour in what ever medium you want, i.e. cellulose , 2 pack, water based or even emulsion. That's the whole point of having standards.

Triplex glass and date coding.

I have been helping a fellow J owner with various parts for his J type restoration. During our e-mail exchanges I mentioned the quick way to date a vehicle was to check the glass. he had never heard of this and so I explained how it works.

Remember you are only dating the glass of the vehicle and it is best to check as many of the pieces of glass as you can.

First you need to have an idea what age the vehicle might be, well to the nearest 10 years at least.

You now need to look for two dots, one dot will be above the letters T,R,E, or X

 (in TRIPLEX) and gives the quarter of the year the glass was manufactured.

T=Jan,Feb,March

R=April,May,June

E=July,Aug,Sept,

X=Oct,Nov,Dec.

The second dot to look out for is below one of the letters in the word TOUGHENED.

T=1, O=2 etc (if no dot the year is zero).

Therefore a July 1955 J type should have glass with a dot above the letter "E" in TRIPLEX and a dot below the letter "H" in TOUGHENED.

This is only a rough guide but might be of interest to you all.