Why is a Jubilee Clip, called a Julbilee Clip?

[nellypope]

Just would really like to know????

[dundurn]

It's a trademark of L Robinson & Co

[nellypope]

But do you know Why they picked the term "jubilee"

[dundurn]

No, but I've just emailed their sales office so we may get an answer! (My father-in-law was a naval engineer from Gillingham which is where the company is based and he spent a good proportion of his working life tightening these things up, which is why I knew about the company.)

[HJSimpsonuk]

You could always ask 'em!!
http://www.jubileeclips.co.uk/

Best Wishes
HJSUK {8o(])

[heathfield]

These clips were first produced in 1935, the 25th jubilee year of the reign of King George V and Queen Mary. The company named them for that reason.

[Ethel]

The Jubilee Clip was invented in 1921 and the company was founded in the same year, so it can't be that

[heathfield]

Oh! Thanks for the update, Ethel. I was told my answer many years ago by a guy who ran a repair garage. You've got me wondering if perhaps in 1935 there might have been a slightly improved design over the original screw clamp. Let's hope Dundurn gets the answer from the horse's mouth!

[nellypope]

thanks guys, appreciate it :-)

[dundurn]

OK the good news is they replied! How refreshing to get a personal response in this day of impersonal big business. The great-grandson of the founder and inventor took the trouble to drop me a line.
Unfortunately the good news stops there. The inventor took the secret to his grave and didn't even tell his wife. Apparently there have been several solutions proposed over the years, but no one knows for sure.

So, armed with this total lack of information you have free rein to come up with ideas of your own!

[nellypope]

Wow! thanks Dundern, you're right it is rare these days to get such a prompt and personal response!!!

I think maybe I would go with the coronation one, even though the years don't add up, it could have have been named after invention.

thanks X

nelli

[Ethel]

Interesting, thank you.

In the 70s I went to a fancy dress party as a punk rocker and wore jubilee clips as rings on my fingers and a large one as a choker round my neck.

I got home after a few drinks and couldn't get the one around my neck off, so went to bed.

My neck was green next morning, and I had to go to work to get somebody else to take it off for me.

Happy days. :)

[dundurn]

nelly, in the course of trying to work today and starting from a point of no knowledge at all I did do a bit of digging on the word Jubilee.
I knew it was Hebrew and was a once every so often festival but had forgotten it was once every 50 years. It was a special year when slaves were freed and sins were forgiven and leased land was returned to its original owners. Its commencement was announced by the priests blowing on their ramshorn shofars and in fact the very word jubilee is a corruption of the original Hebrew yoval which means ram.

So I went digging a little further and came up with the following illustration of such a horn.

www.judaica-mall.com/shofar-140041.htm

Now have a close up look at the black one on the right. I may be very wrong but the pattern of grooves looks very similar to that on a Jubilee clip. Probably just coincidence but I do happen to know, thanks to the inventor's great-grandson, that he was a good Methodist!