Swedish Jensens
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:53 pm
We have started a little academic research project into Jensen as example for vintage car culture, the project is based at Malmö University and we run it from Hamburg and Malmö.
For a pilot study, we look into Jensen-culture in Sweden:
There has been no active Jensen-club in Sweden for ca 20 years. There has been a Jensen-Healey club, but even that trickled out long ago.
So, we got the data on registered cars from the state and sent a questionaire to every owner of Jensen cars in Sweden. And the answers have started to come in.
We will continue to collect information on how people organise their Jensen-related activities. If all goes well, we turn the results into some documentary comics (sequential images tell the story and show how people, cars, things look. And we do of course share the results here.
But now more about the answers to the questionaire:
Some would like to have a Jensen related club, and some ask for meetings of Jensen & Jensen-Healeys in Sweden or even in the regions, as many would not drive their cars all that far.
There are quite some issues taken up in the responses, there are hints of spare or donator car-offers. In the answers to the questionaire, some ask for suggestions of garages or experts for restauration projects, in Sweden or around Sweden.
Also, there remains frustration because of mis-attributed chassis numbers -- check out the details on this, in case you have not read the splendid piece on the issue of mis-numbered FFs on the Jensen Museum's homepage: https://www.jensenmuseum.org/jensen-ff-119-029/
And then most of the usual stuff comes up when you own and try to run cars like ours, seems like there is enough to keep a Swedish section busy.
In my case, it feels completelty wrong to try to start a section of the JOC for Sweden without living there. And Jakob, our man in Malmö, is in Sweden, knows about research and documentary comics and so on, but neither owns a Jensen nor is he close enough to the practical issues of repairing, restoring, running a Jensen in Sweden. So, it would be splendid, if one or two of you in Sweden would start a Swedish section (yepp, this is the begging section of the message...)
Here is what we can offer at the moment: A first analysis of the data on Jensen cars in Sweden -- official data provided by Transportstyrelsen, Örebro, in January 2020 -- is on Jakob's homepage: http://jakob-dittmar.eu/heritage.html
Jakob will contact those who asked to be telephoned during the next weeks. If you have more information on Jensen culture in Sweden, please contact Jakob: jakob.dittmar@mau.se
We will duly update with more information on the page and here while we go along. Hope, this is ok!
Best regards, Berthold and Jakob
For a pilot study, we look into Jensen-culture in Sweden:
There has been no active Jensen-club in Sweden for ca 20 years. There has been a Jensen-Healey club, but even that trickled out long ago.
So, we got the data on registered cars from the state and sent a questionaire to every owner of Jensen cars in Sweden. And the answers have started to come in.
We will continue to collect information on how people organise their Jensen-related activities. If all goes well, we turn the results into some documentary comics (sequential images tell the story and show how people, cars, things look. And we do of course share the results here.
But now more about the answers to the questionaire:
Some would like to have a Jensen related club, and some ask for meetings of Jensen & Jensen-Healeys in Sweden or even in the regions, as many would not drive their cars all that far.
There are quite some issues taken up in the responses, there are hints of spare or donator car-offers. In the answers to the questionaire, some ask for suggestions of garages or experts for restauration projects, in Sweden or around Sweden.
Also, there remains frustration because of mis-attributed chassis numbers -- check out the details on this, in case you have not read the splendid piece on the issue of mis-numbered FFs on the Jensen Museum's homepage: https://www.jensenmuseum.org/jensen-ff-119-029/
And then most of the usual stuff comes up when you own and try to run cars like ours, seems like there is enough to keep a Swedish section busy.
In my case, it feels completelty wrong to try to start a section of the JOC for Sweden without living there. And Jakob, our man in Malmö, is in Sweden, knows about research and documentary comics and so on, but neither owns a Jensen nor is he close enough to the practical issues of repairing, restoring, running a Jensen in Sweden. So, it would be splendid, if one or two of you in Sweden would start a Swedish section (yepp, this is the begging section of the message...)
Here is what we can offer at the moment: A first analysis of the data on Jensen cars in Sweden -- official data provided by Transportstyrelsen, Örebro, in January 2020 -- is on Jakob's homepage: http://jakob-dittmar.eu/heritage.html
Jakob will contact those who asked to be telephoned during the next weeks. If you have more information on Jensen culture in Sweden, please contact Jakob: jakob.dittmar@mau.se
We will duly update with more information on the page and here while we go along. Hope, this is ok!
Best regards, Berthold and Jakob