15 Facts About Jensen Motors

Jensen Motors Limited was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles in West Bromwich, England.

Jensen Motors built specialist car bodies for major manufacturers alongside cars of their own design using engines and mechanicals of major manufacturers Ford, Austin and Chrysler.

Rights to Jensen Motors's trademarks were bought with the company and it briefly operated in Speke, Liverpool, from 1998 to 2002.

Jensen Motors persuaded Alan Jensen to join New Avon Body Co, a Standard Motor associate and under Wilde's aegis Alan Jensen designed the first Standard Avon open two-seaters produced from 1929 to 1933.

Jensen Motors went on to design two more cars for Avon then moved with his brother Richard to Austin dealers Edgbaston Garage Limited, Bournbrook, in a building still standing next to the University of Birmingham campus.

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In 1955, Jensen Motors started production of Neale's masterpiece, the 541, which used the then-revolutionary material of fibreglass for its bodywork.

Jensen Motors stand at the October 1964 Earls Court Motorshow displayed a Jensen FF car equipped with all wheel drive and ABS as publicised but not displayed in February 1964.

Volvo P1800: In 1960 Jensen Motors won a contract from Volvo to assemble and finish the bodies for their P1800 coupe.

Sunbeam Tiger: In the early 1960s Jensen Motors was involved in the development and production of the Sunbeam Tiger.

Jensen Motors was bought by Norcros Limited, "an industrial holding company" in June 1959.

Alan Jensen Motors retired from the positions of joint managing director and alternate chairman in October 1964 though he remained on the board.

Richard Jensen Motors "relinquished" his appointment as joint managing director in November 1965 but remained chairman.

In September 1967 Jensen Motors announced they had been hit by the US car safety regulations which were going to come into force the following January.

In September 2011 CPP, a specialist sports car manufacturer announced they were planning to make a new Jensen Motors, expected to go on sale to the public sometime in 2014.

Also in 2016, Jensen Motors is expected to launch the successor to the famous Jensen Motors Interceptor, called the Interceptor 2.