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Papers of Jensen Motors Ltd
Catalogue reference: MSS.215
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This record is about the Papers of Jensen Motors Ltd dating from 1936-1975.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MSS.215
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Title (The name of the record)
- Papers of Jensen Motors Ltd
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1936-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agreements, 1936-1949; various financial records, including monthly analysis of sales and production costs, 1947-1958, general ledgers, 1951-1967, papers relating to annual accounts, including stock details, c. 1957-1971, purchase balances, 1972-1973; correspondence relating to projects, suppliers and other firms in the industry, c. 1969-1974.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The Modern Records Centre uses a classification scheme. For further details of the scheme, see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/mrcclass.shtml. It is compatible with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description(2000).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Jensen Motors Ltd</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 0.726 cubic metres
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Jensen brothers began their business as coachbuilders, when they took over the firm of W.J. Smith and Sons. They became motor manufacturers in 1935/6 and began lorry manufacture in 1939. This aspect of manufacture was replaced by subcontract work.
After both brothers had resigned as a result of ill-health, the company was successively owned by the Norcros Group, William Brandt, the merchant bankers and the Californian business man Kjell Qvale. The firm went into liquidation in 1976.
Reference: Catalogue to the collection.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bdf2f9d4-0c96-4a09-bb21-e8c360212268/
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Papers of Jensen Motors Ltd