Jensen Motors Personnel
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MUSEUM A-Z LEXICON
Jensen Motors Sales Department A-Z
From before the Second World War, and immediately after, Jensen Motors were producing so few vehicles that an extensive sales team wasn’t required. In fact it is more than likely the Jensen brothers were involved in much of the sales side themselves. Former army major, Henry Weir, was employed by Jensen Motors from just before […]
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RECOLLECTIONS
Jensen Motors Chief Quality Engineer | Andrew Bee | Recollections
Jensen’s Marketing Manager, Richard Graves, enticed Andrew Bee to leave Rolls Royce and Join Jensen Motors. The Company were struggling to maintain quality control, and Graves knew Bee was the right man for the job. Bee reflects on his time at Rolls Royce and at Jensen Motors. Andrew Bee | Recollections | Early Years […]
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RECOLLECTIONS
Austin Healey Track | Kendrick’s Recollections
Clive Kendrick joined Jensen Motors in 1963 as an apprentice, and after spending time in various departments, including the trim shop, he was placed with a sub-assembly ‘gang’ on the Austin Healey track. Kendrick gives the Museum his recollections of the various procedures, and ‘gangs’ that led an Austin Healey to become a completed shell […]
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Museum A-Z Lexicon
Jensen Motors Personnel A-Z
Who were the Jensen Motors employees, involved in producing the must have cars of the time. From the colourful Carl Duerr, to Richard Graves, gentleman personified. It was a dedicated workforce from shop floor to managing directors office, and everyone loved the product they were producing. Not that this was an easy ride, as service […]
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MUSEUM A-Z LEXICON
Jensen Motors Drawing Office Employees A-Z
Integral to any car company is a competent drawing office, where a range of draughtsmen, illustrators, body and chassis specialists, along with estimators, work on new car models. Jensen Motors gave a huge amount of autonomy over to the men of the drawing office, unlike many other car companies, which had ‘checkers’. It was the […]
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LIFE & TIMES OF A JENSEN EMPLOYEE
Jensen’s Top Valeter | Maud Pritchard
“No one could clean a vehicle like Maud, her attention to detail was phenomenal, and how she cleaned glass was something from a magicians act – you just didn’t know there was glass there !” John Page – Technical Service Representative, Service Department, Jensen Motors. Jensen’s Top Valeter | Maud Pritchard | Early Years […]
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LIFE & TIMES OF A JENSEN EMPLOYEE
Jensen Motors Works Manager | Life & Times Of Bill Silvester
After the end of the Second World War, ex-Sergeant, Bill Silvester, started work at Jensen Motors as Works Foreman. It wasn’t until 1973 that Silvester was formally appointed as Works Manager, even although he had occupied that position since at least 1962. The job of both Works Foreman, and Works Manager was no easy-ride, but […]
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MUSEUM A-Z LEXICON
Jensen Motors Service Department A-Z
There had been a small Service Department at Jensen Motors back in the days of Carter’s Green. However, emphasis was on the word small. It was only after the move to Kelvin Way, and the introduction of the Italian-designed Interceptor, that the Service Department needed to be significantly enlarged. Initially at Kelvin Way, Bay 11 […]
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LIFE & TIMES JENSEN EMPLOYEE
Jensen Motors’ Baseball Legend
William ‘Bill’ Casey joined Jensen Motors in 1969 as a finisher on sub-assembly. Outside of work, Casey’s obsession was with American baseball. He practised fanatically, and was already a major player in Britain’s post-war fledgling baseball league, by the time he joined Jensen Motors. With the help of his wife, the Museum has pieced together […]
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LIFE & TIMES JENSEN EMPLOYEE
Jensen Motors Inspector | Life & Times
Frank Nation ended up working at Jensen Motors in 1944, as an Inspector. Being on Reserved Occupation, it wasn’t Nation’s choice to go to Jensen Motors, he had to go where the authorities believed he was best needed. He remained at Jensen Motors from 1944 until the Company closed down in 1976. Using material from […]
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RECOLLECTIONS
Jensen Motors Project Engineer | Philip Campion | Recollections
Philip Campion joined Jensen Motors in 1970 as Project Engineer. One of Campion’s first tasks was to bring the Press Shop and Machine Shop into the modern age. He was sent over to Lotus to try and bring an end to the supply problems of the engine for the Jensen Healey, and later on was […]
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DAY IN THE LIFE
Jensen Motors Trim Shop Worker | Day In The Life
Sandra Bath (later Sandra Nation) joined Jensen Motors just before Christmas 1960. Bath started work in the Trim Shop stuffing seats. Later she put the fastenings onto the carpets, and worked the machine that put the windows in the soft-tops of Austin Healey cars. Bath worked at Jensen Motors between 1960 and 1966. I turned […]
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FACTORY RECOLLECTIONS
Jensen Motors Paint Shop Operator | Recollections
An impromptu telephone call from Peter Stait’s brother, Tony, in 1972, led him to join Jensen Motors as a Paint Operator. Tony Stait had been employed at Jensen Motors as a paint sprayer since the late 1960s. He had often mentioned to his brother, Peter, that he should apply for a job there. With large […]
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MUSEUM A-Z LEXICON
Jensen Motors Paint Shop Employees A-Z
The Paint Shop at Jensen Motors included the red oxidising & priming, through to painting and final undersealing, before the body moved to the start of the assembly track. Former Paint Shop Operative, Peter Stait, remembers how the foreman would hand over the paint for each car coming through the booth. “As painters, we didn’t […]
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FACTORY RECOLLECTIONS
Jensen Motors’ Press Shop Manager | Recollections
Ron Freckleton had the most incredible career with Jensen Motors. Starting in the Press Shop in 1951, later becoming Press Shop Manager, then Rate-Fixer, before heading the pressings company at Cymgors, which had been bought out by Qvale. Freckleton’s return to Kelvin Way in 1975, saw him without any formal position. In reality he became […]