Know this one?
Surely this won't make it to the pro's?
Gutbrod Atlas ?
Not that...
Bergman ?
Not that, either..
Pro time!
Could this be an electric van by the German make Still ?
It is electric, but not German!
From Switzerland?
No, not from there either
European country?
Is it a DAF?
It is European, but not a DAF
A French SOVEL ?
Not French...
A British vehicle, I think?
Since it's LHD and has a Persil pub, and by the size of the license plate... Austrian ?
BET?
None of previous 3 guesses is correct ;)
Italian?
B.E.V.?
Twice no ;)
From Be-Ne-Lux?
Not from there (in my case: here)
Scandinavia?
yes, from there ;D
Denmark?
Yes again :thumbsup:
found on the internet? ???
This car predates the internet by quite a bit :lmao:
It is a Jensen electric minivan produced between 1940-1943. Quite nice puzzle, had to do a bit of research in Danish :)!
(http://www.lfvk.dk/Pict0018.JPG)
I thought that that Jensen was the same as the later car manufacturer (JNSN) but unrelated??
(looks a lot like a Jen-Tug to me)
Dammit! Hadn't enough time...
Quote from: pnegyesi on March 30, 2010, 02:00:46 PM
It is a Jensen electric minivan produced between 1940-1943. Quite nice puzzle, had to do a bit of research in Danish :)!
:bow: A well deserved point for you. Guess that Allemano helped you a bit on your way ;)
See the bottom of the last page of the attached file for a interesting detail
I do still believe it is a British JenTug that was made - probably - in licensen
It is indeed hard to believe that that 2 such similar vehicles with similar names would have nothing to do with each other. At the risk of ruining a potential puzzle, I've found a picture of a Jen-Tug: The Danish vehicle looks like a further development.
The other thing I'm curious about is the General Motors reference on the last page of the document I've found
Googling JenTug gave me this in images:
(http://www.jensencv8.com/images/jentug2.jpg)
which looks very close
I saw that one too, it is almost identical to the old photo I posted. But the Danish car is much more rounded. It makes the British one look like an early prototype
Cab on the British version is more over the first wheel.
Strangely, the Jentug is supposedly also electrical though. In the PDF file is a first name too, maybe a strange coincedence. Apparently the jentug was manufactureref after the war?
I translated a bit of the PDF file, and it states that GM took over the business after Jensen had to give up this project. I also found this biography on the web, so I guess there really is no connection with the British Jensen
Edwin K. Jensen, 1906-1974
Edwin Karl Jensen was born in Aarhus, Jutland, on the 13th March, 1906. In 1925 he graduated from high school (mathematics) in Aarhus, and in 1932 he finally graduated as an engineer (electronics) from the Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Højskole) in Copenhagen. In the years 1932-1934 he worked as a sound film consultant at the Rialto theatre in Copenhagen and decided to settle in the capital, and the following years he worked for the companies Torotor (1934-1938) and the American Apparate Co. (1938-1940) before he managed to establish his own company, A/S Jensen Motor Co., mainly producing electric cars during the early years, 1940-1943, of World War II. However, it was necessary for the company and Edwin Karl Jensen to co-operate with the German army to get supplies, and for that he received a sentence at the end of the war for collaboration with the occupying forces. After a few years, in 1947, Edwin Karl Jensen became works engineer in the company A/S Jensen & Hoffmann officially owned by his father-in-law (second marriage). In the late forties the company produced and exported among other things also very durable gramophone needles.
During those years, before 1949, he had again established good relations with the friends he had before the war, among others the noted engineer Jørgen Mølkier. Together they initiated a limited production of 20-selection automatic phonographs (jukeboxes) in the company A/S Jensen & Hoffmann, but Edwin Karl Jensen realized from the beginning that it was necessary to produce large numbers to make it worth while to have that kind of production in Denmark. In 1954 the company name changed to Jensen Music Automates A/S (licensed by AMI Inc. in the States), and it soon became the largest and most important jukebox producing company in Europe (around 1955-56) with export of machines with the brand name Jensen IMA/AMI Music Box to more than thirty countries. In 1958 the company finally stopped producing jukeboxes due to serious competition mainly from German manufacturers but also from importers of new, well designed Silver Age machines from the States. Thus, the company specialized in mass-production of television sets, and its name changed to Jensen Music & Television A/S. The company became the first in fact to introduce 23" bonded-shield kinescopes on the Danish market.
Edwin Karl Jensen was the managing director and also the chairman of the board of the following companies related to the jukebox industry: Jensen Music Automates A/S (1954-1958), Jensen Music & Television A/S (1958-1963), and also of the company Dansk Grammofon Automat A/S (1954-1960), a company that operated Jensen (IMA/AMI) as well as American AMI jukeboxes on the domestic market. Edwin Karl Jensen was also as founding member the chairman of the Danish organisation of manufacturers and operators, Foreningen af Fabrikanter og Opstillere af Musikautomater i Danmark. After 1963, when the formerly jukebox producing company had collapsed due to heavy losses on the domestic market, Edwin Karl Jensen established his own consulting engineering company named Jensen Electronic Engineering, and the following decade he worked intensely with the development of new carburators for the car industry. He was granted world-wide patents for some of his most significant inventions (the last of the patents was granted in 1973). Edwin Karl Jensen died on the 23rd September, 1974, only 68 years of age, and was buried in the communal grave Birkelunden (Frederiksberg) in Copenhagen.
Gert J. Almind
Personally I don't think they look alike at all...
Jensen is of course an extremely common name in Denmark. In fact just about everyone whose surname isn't Nielsen or Hansen is called Jensen...
Funny, I know 3 Danes that share my name, a Peter and a Nels.
4 wheels, cab for the front wheels, electric powered, the general shape..
Quote from: DeAutogids.nl on March 30, 2010, 06:00:43 PM
Funny, I know 3 Danes that share my name, a Peter and a Nels.
4 wheels, cab for the front wheels, electric powered, the general shape..
Sure it's not Niels? Of course there are plenty of other names, but still the overwhelming majority are the 3 I mentioned..
You could say that about many vehicles; in fact my wife reckons all cars look the same.. The proverbial Man from Mars would probably agree, but it is the subtle differences that mark them apart and what looks broadly the same to the disinterested observer looks completely different to the car enthusiast..
100% sure, I e-mail him, at least, once a month.
About subtle differences: Absolutely right.
That's why I am thinking the more cars I see the less I know.
Quote from: DeAutogids.nl on March 30, 2010, 06:11:27 PM
That's why I am thinking the more cars I see the less I know.
Since I joined Auto Puzzles I've found out I know absolutely nothing...
And it's quite a good starting point!
Quote from: Carnut on March 30, 2010, 06:16:38 PM
Quote from: DeAutogids.nl on March 30, 2010, 06:11:27 PM
That's why I am thinking the more cars I see the less I know.
Since I joined Auto Puzzles I've found out I know absolutely nothing...
And it's quite a good starting point!
that's what I like when people say "I know cars" and I ask them to name a Nepalese car brand (it exists!).
Sorry, Allemano, between dinner and taking our 14-month-old son to bed I just had enough time to do some fairly quick Googling and was very lucky to find this.
You mean I'm fairly slow, don't you? ;D
I had to leave, that's why I didn't have the time..
The Jensen Elektrovogn is quite interisting! :thumbsup: