Solved: Wendax 1242 - Lancia Dilambda by Jensen & Son

[Wendax]

Not by Hojer

[mekubb]

Found the car but my Danish is not so good... body by Jensen ?

[Wendax]

Your Danish seems to be as good as mine. 

It is a Lancia Dilambda bodied (or rebodied?) by Jensen & Son. One well-earned point for you.

[mekubb]

Thanks. And as far as I can understand the guy behind it is Rasmus Rasmussen, see attached pic

[Bill Murray]

My congratulations to both of you!!

Gerd for finding it and mekubb for solving it.

I think the photo caption only captures part of the story but with my knowledge of Swedish which is a bit rusty as I only lived there for two years, I can fill in a few blanks.  The translation is not word for word, just some of the details.

Lieutenant Hagemann (whom I presume was the one who ordered the car) volunteered himself as a fighter in the Winter War in Finland.  He died/was killed.

The vehicles fate is unknown.

The sum Hans Jensen wrote on the invoice to Hagemann is also unknown but must have been quite a lot depending on the  worth of the krone at the time.

The Lancia was almost complete/ready, missing the upholstery and the windows.

In the photo, Jensen Sr. is to the left, then his son , an unknown customer and then three Jensen employees.
Jubler and Rasmussen were construction/body builder types and Petersen was an upholstery builder.

Without giving up sources, I would really like to get more information on this car.  Nothing on the net that I could find.
I also had no luck with any Jensen body works in Denmark.

Bill

[galrot]

A very poor picture showing the whole car after a repaint.

[Wendax]

 

[galrot]

Without giving up sources, I would really like to get more information on this car.  Nothing on the net that I could find.
I also had no luck with any Jensen body works in Denmark.

Bill

Here is some info:

The car was ordered by lieutenant Hagemann of Copenhagen. He desired a car that combined the hard roof of a coupé with the ability to open it up like with a cabriolet. Jensen engineered a roof that was half foldable and half hard metal which was stored in boot, which can be seen in action in one of the pictures. Jensen used one year to build the car. Hagemann would regularly visit the works during the building process and he would take with him an architect who directed the design of the car.

The car was fitted with "sand boxes" in front the rear wheels where sand could be released onto the road surface. It had a dashboard with eleven warning lights for things like open door (one for each door), open boot, open bonnet etc. It was claimed that it was fitted with all instruments and gadgets that were available at the time including a radio.  It was fitted with a "panoramic" windshield that had to be custom made in Belgium.

Some more pictures of the works of Jensen have started to appear on a famous coachbuilding forum. 

And btw: Hojer (which got mentioned above here) is the same coachbuilder as Jensen & Søn.