Jones Brothers

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Jones Brothers
legal form Limited Company
founding 1928
resolution circa 1960
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat London , UK
Branch Body shop

Jones Brothers (short: Jones) was a British body construction company that primarily manufactured taxi bodies, but also manufactured bodies for luxury vehicles.

Company history

Austin 12/4 taxi with Jones Brothers body (1939)
Bristol 406 (1958)

Jones started operations in 1928. The company was initially based in the London borough of Bayswater . Jones began making structures for taxis early on. Chassis and engines initially came from the Austin 12hp ("Heavy 12") , then from 1934 from the Austin 12/4 . Mann & Overton took over sales for the London area. In the mid-1930s, bodies for private vehicles were also added, such as a one-off aerodynamic two-door model on the chassis of the Lanchester Ten or a small series of convertibles with Austin 12 mechanics, which were marketed as Sandringham .

After the Second World War, Jones was taken over by FH Boyd-Carpenter, who until the outbreak of war had operated its own body construction company under the name Boyd-Carpenter and now ran the Rumbold Company, a supplier to the aircraft industry. Boyd-Carpenter merged the headquarters of Jones with that of the Rumbold Company in the London borough of Willesden .

In the 1950s, Jones manufactured Humber -based ambulances and pick-ups ; In addition, some convertible versions of the Humber Super Snipe were built at Jones. Perhaps Jones was subcontracting to Thrupp & Maberly , the Rootes Group's preferred bodywork supplier. Older vehicles were given new bodies as individual orders. Among them was a Bentley 3 ½ liter , which received a station wagon body in the style of a "Woodie" . The last order came from Bristol Cars and related to the production of the bodies for the Bristol 406 presented in 1958 . Jones built approximately 150 bodies of the 406.

According to one source, Jones did not fully complete the Bristol contract; Before it was closed, the company had become insolvent and ceased operations. Bristol passed on the wooden molds used by Jones to Park Royal Vehicles in 1961 , where - starting with the 407 - until 1976 the bodies for the stylistically only slightly modified successors of the 406 were manufactured.

Another source reports that in 1962 Jones fitted a Jaguar Mark II with a station wagon body on behalf of racing driver Mike Hawthorn .

literature

  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding , Routledge, 2001, ISBN 9781136600722 .
  • Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 .

Web links

Commons : Jones Brothers Coachbuilder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nick Walker: AZ of British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 131.
  2. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 . Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 81.
  3. ^ Graham Robson: The Cars of the Rootes Group , London 2007, ISBN 978-1-903088-29-6 , p. 160.
  4. ↑ Image of the car on the website www.coachbuild.com (accessed on August 9, 2019).
  5. ↑ Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story, Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 246.
  6. ↑ Christopher Balfour: Bristol Cars. A very British story, Haynes Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-844254071 , p. 261.
  7. ^ NN: The Bristol 407. Luxurious British Sports Saloon with 5.2 Liter V-8 Engine from Canada , engine from September 6, 1961.
  8. ↑ James Taylor: Jaguar Mks 1 and 2, S-Type and 420 , Crowood, 2016, ISBN 9781785001130 .