1960 Jensen 541S in Sarasota USA

[felixkk]

$67’500, chassis number not in advert

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/ca ... 86797.html

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[colin7673]

Very nice looking car but I'm a little confused. In the write up it says. Another first for the 541 series was the use of Dunlop disc brakes on all four wheels most having GM-licensed Rolls-Royce Hydra-Matic gearboxes.

Did Jensen need a licence to use this system from Rolls Royce, or was it sub licence from GM ?

I would assume staging from Rolls ?

[VFK44]

Hydramatic was the first successful mass produced auto trans and Rolls could not afford to design their own box, so they paid GM a licence fee. The first hundred or so that Rolls-Royce fitted were actually supplied direct from GM in Detroit, and after that Rolls-Royce built them in Britain. If Jensen bought them from R-R then the licencing deal would be part of the process.