Can you please identify the font used on this 1950s Car Club Jacket - "Apollos":

Old English Text  Suggested by donshottype 
Canterbury  Suggested by jarmandesign 

there will be some inconsistencies since itll be sewn on but id say Canterbury is your best bet.
Same goes with the Columbos (Lowercase c has been enlarged as a cap)

if anyone has a source on the Road Rumblers itd be much appreciated

Hi jarmandesign.

I think you got it!

But please explain how this Canterbury font was created in 2003 by Dieter Steffmann, but is being used by Car Clubs on their jackets in the 50s?

Cheers,
Dave

William Caslon created this general design over 200 years ago.
The jacket lettering of the 1950s would not have been an exact copy of a font, but rather a simplified rendition that could be sewn on the jacket or silk-screened on it.
The maker would presumably have seen a printed version of Old English Text and used it as a model.
This version dates from 1935.
As for Dieter Steffmann's fonts he said, in effect that they were "improved" versions, i.e. additional characters etc., of existing digital fonts that he felt were not properly available and that he wished to share with the world.
Canterbury is a rip of Old English Text.
Don

cant argue with that, theres a ton of imitations

Thanks for the replies jarmandesign and Don.

So is there a visual difference between CANTERBURY, OLD ENGLISH TEXT Std and OLD ENGLISH TEXT MT, because when I put them all next to each other I can't see it?

Also, I noticed that on the "Apollos" jacket the font does have some noticeable differences to the typed CANTERBURY font: the "p" tail is elongated, the "s" seems to meet more in the middle, and the "A" and "l" letters also appear more elongated. Do you know of anyone that could manipulate the standard CANTERBURY font so that it looks more like it does on the jacket, because I would like to make an identical replica of the jacket, and the jacket maker says he needs the exact letters to trace?

Cheers,
Dave

why not just throw it in to illustrator an adjust it yourself?
Again its not going to be exact due to the fact that the jacket is entirely handmade

Because I have limited computer skills and wouldn't know where to start?

well in that case, just use the font as is - the minor imperfections are only gonna be noticed by you

The guy making me the jacket put together a great version, but I don't know how to upload it to show you, because I can't see a way of adding an image to a reply.