Wooden Steering wheel

[cass3958]

Decided it was time to change my steering wheel as I had a little bit of damage on the horn push. Not a Moto lita but very close and I think it really suits the car.
Went for the 15 inch as I have PAS and I have found this steering wheel to be a lot nicer to drive with due to its smaller size. The PAS has more feeling now with the smaller diameter wheel.

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[Glyn Ruck]

Very neat! Is it a Tourist Trophy?

[cass3958]

Not sure Glyn, bought new at a car show in a plain white box and there are no markings on the steering wheel. It looks the part though.

[Glyn Ruck]

The fixings look the same as a Tourist Trophy & the wood looks a lot better than some current Moto Lita's

[cass3958]

The stall holder at the show had several of them and he allowed me to take a couple over to my car to look at the wood match and sizes to get the right one. The Boss is from Mota Lita, nine hole system, but not the steering wheel. I might have to buy an engraving kit and put the name on myself. lol.

[Glyn Ruck]

Rob ~ is the boss/horn push a recent acquisition from Moto Lita? I like the fact that it says Jaguar Coventry & has our era colouring. My car's original key fob & enamel badge are exactly like that.

Most are now like this.

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[cass3958]

It was a second hand acquisition again Glyn so not sure how old it is.

[cass3958]

Just came across a Mk2 Jaguar with this Derrington steering wheel. I like this very much but this is the first I have seen like this. Glyn showed a similar photo of a wooden steering wheel but it had two spokes with the original bakerlite horn push not three as this one has. How easy or difficult would it be to add your bakelite horn push to a wooden steering wheel to get this same effect?

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This is the one Glyn posted.

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[David Reilly]

That steering wheel is actually Jaguar Part No. C.25198 "17 in. wood-rim steering wheel, a rarely seen option. Your Editor has seen only a half-dozen, in over 30 years of attending Jaguar concours and other car shows, on Mk2s and only one on an 'S’-type.
When William Lyons styled the 2.4-litre saloon, it inherited the traditional Jaguar four-spoke 17 in. diameter steering wheel that had been almost all post-war Jaguars, m,any with differing horn pushes.
Since the Interior of the 2.4-litre was perceived by the public as being old fashioned, Lyons gave it a complete restyling for the Utah facelift or Utah Mk2 (See Newsletter Vol. 10, No. 8 for full details). He revised the styling of the upper cabin with more glass and thinner pillars to give 18% more window space. There was an improved instrument layout, with the speedometer and tachometer now in front of the driver. Minor instruments and toggle switches were on a recessed centre panel, leather covered rather than walnut. The old style four-spoke steering wheel was replaced with a more elegant two opposing-spoke design, still Bakelite and the same diameter of 17 in., but with a horn push and new half-moon chrome horn ring.
Jaguar asked Vic Derrington to design and produce a special optional steering wheel for the Mk2. Derrington had started making steering wheels in the early 1950s and his patent for a wood rimmed model was applied for on October 18, 1954, and granted on October 5, 1955. The original Derrington wheel had very specific characteristics that allowed it to stand out among all the others. They were: three slotted spokes, even spacing, an eight hole center mounting, and laminated rim of mahogany and either beech or white sycamore.
The steering wheel that Derrington designed especially for Jaguar to offer as a factory option was quite different. It was of the standard 17 in. diameter, with three solid (non-slotted) spokes, two horizontal for mounting the Jaguar horn push assembly and a lower vertical spoke. It also had additional holes to left and right of center to attach the Jaguar horn ring assembly.
The Birmabright spokes were highly polished and the wood rim of contrasting laminations of white beech and rich red mahogany were clear lacquered to bring out the grain. The Jaguar optional steering wheel was priced at £12 and took the standard Jaguar center horn push and half horn-ring.
Jaguar Part No. C.25198 "17 in. wood rim steering wheel, was also offered as factory option on the 'S'-type
Cheers,
David

[Glyn Ruck]

Rob, I replied to you here:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/mki- ... ost2269450

Rob ~ Moto Lita make Derringtons. Give them a call. They might supply mounting hardware for the horn rim/bakerlite cover. Looks as though they do. All you really need to do is drill 4 holes in the side spokes of your existing woodrim wheel if the spoke spacing is correct and you have a flat (non dished) wheel & all the horn push gubbins. Derringtons have a different hub size. I hope the 4 hole spacing does not foul your existing mount. As David says original Derringtons were 17" ~ I believe you moved to 16"

https://www.moto-lita.co.uk/steering...ton-oem-wheel/

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