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.

Scenic views of a rusty chassis.

To help out a Canadian van restorer who is tackling a rebuild of an early 1950 van that had been customised/butchered, part of the front chassis has been cut away.

Well he wanted some pictures of the missing items so here are a few i took in the rain Sunday morning. So all other J'ers reading this he is in desperate need of various items, will you help him out? Rear door hinges, rear doors, late engine covers both parts, Wiper motors, steering wheel, handbrake lever, instruments and binnacle etc etc, What have you spare?.

Chassis plates and body plates.

1966 Morris body plate.1966 Morris chassis plate. (uses the words car number not chassis number.)
1955 Morris car body plate, similar to the type used on C.K.D. export J types. ( uses words car number not chassis number)
1960 body plate.
1960 car  chassis plate.

Late 1957 jb Chassis Plate (UK )Late Jb body plate showing body number 35381 but is fitted to chassis jb/mr 37200.
Body plate close up. (Australian)
Early Australian brass chassis plate.
A nice Australian plate showing the word chassis is missing, replaced by the word car number (a term used on Morris cars and car derived vans ).

The chassis number is 41271 as to what the prefix 7/ relates to, any ideas any one?

I have been talking to many people around the world via this blog and the MCJTV site and some confusion has occurred as to what and where they are as they differ on export vehicles. Morris J types were made in three types for the home market, chassis, chassis cabs and complete vans.

The chassis being the main item as all other units are fitted to the chassis.

The van bodies were made as stated on their plate by the Nuffield Metal Products Co. They produced van bodies and put their makers plate on it with their own serial number.

In the U.K. only the chassis number is used on official paperwork.

When J type production started the vehicles had a large brass plate with all the serial numbers of the chassis and large units on it. During the formation of the B.M.C. group and with the second type of engine cover being introduced (to improve air flow, as over heating was a problem) the brass plate disappeared and a small aluminium plate with only the chassis number on it, took its place. It would seem that export vans were different. Australian vans seem to be fitted with a type of aluminium plate more in keeping with the type fitted to Morris cars of the period, of course cars did not have a separate chassis so for a car or car derived van they had a Car Number which equaled the chassis number and which went on to be the VIN number. Morris products whether vans or cars still had body numbers, but they were never logged in an official way.