Jensen Motors

Jensen Motors Limited
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IndustryAutomotive
Founded1922 (1922) (as W J Smith & Sons Limited)
DefunctJuly 2011 (2011-07) (ceased trading 1976 resumed trading in 1998)
Fatedissolved 2011
HeadquartersWest Bromwich, England
Key people
Richard and Alan Jensen
ProductsAutomobiles
Alan Jensen's first Avon Special

Jensen Motors Limited was a British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles in West Bromwich, England. Brothers Alan and Richard Jensen gave the new name, Jensen Motors Limited, to the commercial- and sports car body-making business of W J Smith & Sons Limited in 1934. It ceased trading in 1976. Though trading would resume in 1998, Jensen Motors Limited was dissolved on 30 July 2011.[citation needed]

Jensen Motors built specialist car bodies for major manufacturers alongside vehicles of their own design using engines and mechanicals sourced from 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.


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