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Jensen Motors was a British manufacturer of sports cars based in West Bromwich (in the West Midlands west of Birmingham). Jensen began as a small coachbuilding firm run by brothers Richard and Alan Jensen; they bought out the body works of W.J. Smiths & Sons where they worked after the owner's death and renamed it Jensen Motors in 1936. Smiths had previously built their first car, named the White Lady, in 1935. In the years leading up to World War II Jensen produced a small number of cars and commercial bodies for trucks and buses. Image File history File links 1938Jensen3. ... Image File history File links 1938Jensen3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1212x773, 337 KB)1959 Jensen 541R 2-door hard-top at a rally in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1212x773, 337 KB)1959 Jensen 541R 2-door hard-top at a rally in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England. ... Jensen may refer to: Tiny Tove Jensen, a Danish legendary pornographic actress Jensen Motors, a British manufacturer of sports cars Arthur Jensen, an American psychologist Georg Jensen, a Danish silversmith Johan Jensen, a Danish mathematician and engineer Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen, a German physicist and laureate of Nobel Prize in... Honda NSX sports car A sports car is a type of automobile designed for sporting performance. ... Map sources for West Bromwich at grid reference SO9992 West Bromwich is a town in the English county of West Midlands, five miles north west of Birmingham. ... The West Midlands is a geographical term describing the western half of central England, known as the Midlands. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Coachbuilder badges A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for carriages or automobiles. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ...

Production of cars ceased over the war years, but by 1946 a new vehicle was offered, the Jensen PW (a luxury saloon). Few were produced since raw materials were still in short supply. A more modern coupe followed in 1950, named the Interceptor, which was built until 1976. In 1955, Jensen started production of the 541, which used the then-revolutionary material of fiberglass for its bodywork. The 541 was replaced by the CV8 in 1962, which replaced the Austin-sourced straight-6 of the previous cars with a 6 litre American Chrysler V8. This large engine in such a lightweight car made the Jensen one of the fastest four-seaters of the time. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1995 Buick Riviera coupe A coupé (from the French for cut) or coupe is a two or four-seater car with a fixed roof and two doors. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fiberglass or fibreglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. ... The Jensen CV-8 was the successor to the 541 series and shared their use of fibreglass as a body material (only the door skins were metal). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Austin Motor Company was British manufacturer of automobiles that rose to be a major motorcar brand, the dominant partner after merger with Morris in the 50s but declining after absorption into British Leyland. ... The straight-6 (also inline 6, I-6, or I6) is an internal combustion engine with six cylinders aligned in a single row. ... The Chrysler Corporation was a United States-based automobile manufacturer that existed independently from 1925–1998. ... The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ...

For its replacement (the Interceptor, launched in 1966) Jensen turned to the Italian coachbuilder, Touring, for the body design, and to steel for the material. The bodyshells themselves were built by Vignale of Italy and later by Jensen. The same 383 in³ Chrysler wedge-head powerplant was used. Initially only a two-door coupe was available, with contemporary square-cut lines except for a large, curving wrap-around rear window that doubled as a hatchback. Jensen Interceptor The Jensen Interceptor was a sporting GT-class car built in the United Kingdom by Jensen between 1966 and 1976. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Touring was an Italian automobile design and coachbuilding firm in the 1950s. ... Vignale was an Italian automobile coachbuilder company. ... Peugeot 306 Hatchback, with the hatch lifted and the parcel shelf visible A hatchback is an automobile design, consisting of a passenger cabin which includes an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a hatch or flip-up window. ...

Related to the Interceptor was another car, the Jensen FF, the letters standing for Ferguson Formula, Ferguson being the inventor of a full-time all wheel drive system, the first on a production sports car. Also featured was the Dunlop Maxaret anti-lock braking system in one of the first uses of ABS in a production car. Outwardly, the only differences from the Interceptor were four extra inches of length (all ahead of the windscreen) and a second row of air vents behind the front wheels. The small number of 320 FFs were constructed, and production ceased in 1971. A revival in 2001 was short lived, by the end of 2002 car production on their only model - the £40,000 SV8 - had ceased. The Jensen FF (Ferguson Formula) was an all wheel drive GT car produced by the British manufacturer Jensen between 1966 and 1971. ... Ferguson Research Ltd. ... Four wheel drive or 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously in order to provide maximum traction. ... An anti-lock braking system (commonly known as ABS, from the German name Antiblockiersystem given to it by its inventors at Bosch) is a system on motor vehicles which prevents the wheels from locking while braking. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...