A Brief History of Jowett Cars in the 1930s

The Jowett brothers—Benjamin and William—built their first car in 1906, which they drove and tested for four years before going into production in 1910. By 1916, 48 cars had been built, but after this the factory then switched to munitions work during the First World War. In 1920, the Jowett brothers took on more clerical staff and increased the factory shop-floor workforce, as car production took off dramatically from their new factory at Five-Lane-Ends, Idle, Bradford, in Yorkshire, UK. Two…