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Jensen Motors Ltd was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles in Lyng, West Bromwich, west of Birmingham England. Brothers Alan and Richard Jensen gave the new name, Jensen Motors Limited, to the Lyng commercial body and sports car body making business of W J Smith & Sons Limited in 1934. It ceased trading in 1976. 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. The rights to Jensen's trademarks were bought with the company and it briefly operated in Speke, Liverpool from 1998 to 2002. Under subsequent owners, a new version of the Jensen Interceptor was announced in 2011. It was planned to bring manufacture of that new model back to the former Jaguar motor plant in Browns Lane, Coventry. ==Jensen brothers== In 1926 young Alan Jensen (1906-1994) and his brother Richard Jensen (1909-1977)〔Frank Alan Jensen and Richard Arthur Jensen〕 built a new boat-tailed sporting body on one of the first Chummy baby Austins. It was seen by Alfred Herbert Wilde, (1891-1930) chief engineer of Standard Motor Company. He 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. He 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. Edgbaston Garage, a car servicing business, had been bought for his son in 1929 by J A M Patrick's father. Joe Patrick, involved in all fields of motor sport, was setting up a coach building operation. For Edgbaston the Jensen brothers made handsome bodies for the new Wolseley Hornet and Hornet Special chassis. They were widely advertised as The Patrick Special. So in 1931 the brothers moved again and Edgbaston Garage became Patrick Motors Limited.〔Motoring. ‘’The Times’’, Thursday, Aug 26, 1976; pg. 23; Issue 59792〕〔 The Jensen brothers had gone to work for lorry body maker W J Smith & Sons in Carters Green in West Bromwich again to build bodies for small sports cars including more Wolseley Hornet Specials. This was a quite separate development which Smith named on their account Jensen Motors. Their own name was on the product. In 1934 Smith died and the brothers managed to buy a controlling shareholding in Smith & Sons. They later changed the name of W J Smith & Sons to Jensen Motors Limited.〔〔〔 Smith's announced an open 4-seater and a lowered 2-seater in May 1931 both to be known as Jensen Wolseley Hornets. They later expanded to build exclusive customised bodies for standard cars produced by several manufacturers of the day including Morris, Singer, Standard, as well as Wolseley. In 1934 they were commissioned by American film actor Clark Gable to design and build a car for him based on a Ford V-8 chassis. The resultant car won them much acclaim and stimulated huge interest in their work, including a deal with Ford to produce a run of Jensen-Fords with Jensen bodywork with a Ford chassis and engine. In 1934 they also started to design their first true production car under the name ''White Lady''. This evolved into the Jensen S-type which went into production in 1935. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jensen Motors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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