Editing Jensen Motors (section)

==Jensen brothers==
[[File:Jensen "Woodie" shooting brake.jpg|thumb|right|1935 Jensen-Ford "[[Woodie (car body style)|woodie]]" [[Shooting brake]] ]]
[[File:1938Jensen3.5litre.jpg|thumb|left|1938 Jensen S-type drophead, 3.5 litre]]
In 1926 young [[Alan Jensen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=KGHY3f2DOOnvidFYIwRnpw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=27 March 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> (1906-1994) and his brother [[Richard Jensen (businessman)|Richard Jensen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=qe2hy7YtB1Ajw7pCAs53Qg&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=27 March 2021|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> (1909-1977)<ref group=note>Frank Alan Jensen and Richard Arthur Jensen</ref> 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 (coachbuilder)|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. Young Joe Patrick, involved in all fields of motor sport, was setting up a coachbuilding operation. For his Edgbaston Garage the Jensen brothers made handsome bodies for the new [[Wolseley Hornet six|Wolseley Hornet]] and [[Wolseley Hornet six#Hornet Special|Hornet Special]] chassis. To the concern of the brothers their cars were widely advertised as The Patrick Special and so in 1931 the brothers moved again. Edgbaston Garage became Patrick Motors Limited.<ref name=TT56152>{{cite journal | title = Jensen To Produce Car With Four-Wheel-Drive | journal = [[The Times]] | location = London, UK | date = Oct 26, 1964 | page = 6 | number = 56152}}</ref><ref name=TT59792>Motoring. ‘’The Times’’, Thursday, Aug 26, 1976; pg. 23; Issue 59792</ref><ref name=TT60108/>

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'''.<ref name=TT56152/><ref name=TT59792/><ref name=TT60108/>

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 Motors|Morris]], [[Singer (car)|Singer]], [[Standard Motor Company|Standard]], as well as [[Wolseley Motors|Wolseley]]. In 1934 they were commissioned by American film actor [[Clark Gable]] to design and build a car for him based on a [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[Ford flathead V8 engine|V-8]] chassis.<ref name=Beaulieu>{{cite book |last=Georgano |first=N. | author-link=G.N. Georgano |title=Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile |year=2000 |publisher=HMSO |location=London |isbn=1-57958-293-1}}</ref>  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-Ford]]s with Jensen bodywork with a Ford chassis and engine.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2iw0Ix9DPIC&pg=PA15|title=Anglo-American Cars: From the 1930s to the 1970s|author=Norman Mort|page=15|access-date=23 March 2021}}</ref> 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.

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