anyone with any pics or info as to Jensen trucks,were they good to drive,reliable etc. 
Used to drive one when I was seventeen to the old Spits. Not a bad truck,cab used to flap a bit. Didn’t really like it.
Three photos for you here of Bob Hobbs site transportphotos.com
Used to see one with a livestock container in Hereford market regularly. Would I be correct in thinking they were Perkins powered?
Retired Old ■■■■:
Used to see one with a livestock container in Hereford market regularly. Would I be correct in thinking they were Perkins powered?
Yes, a P6. The engine was mounted on rollers so that the engine and gearbox could be rolled along the chassis and replaced in a couple of hours, I was told that they suffered corrosion around the spring hanger brackets but I have no hands on knowledge of them due to my tender years! 
Very light though, must have come well under the three ton bracket?
Pete.
Not QUITE old enough to have driven them myself but I understand that the low unladen weight was the great selling point. There weren’t many diesel-powered lorries that would come under the magic 3 tons.
If you went for a mainstream 7-tonner you would have had to specify a petrol engine in Bedford’s S-type.
Or go for a Ford 
Weren’t they made with an aluminium alloy chassis for the light tare weight that was their main selling point?
gingerfold:
Weren’t they made with an aluminium alloy chassis for the light tare weight that was their main selling point?
I believe so, and that was why corrosion would occour where the spring hangers joined the chassis I guess. The Paccar Fodens suffered the same problem when the alloy Kenworth crossmembers and flitch plates were used on the S108 etc, they rotted away after several years due to alloy corrosion against the steel chassis rails. Weight saving always seems to have a downside somewhere! 
Pete.
gingerfold:
Weren’t they made with an aluminium alloy chassis for the light tare weight that was their main selling point?
I was going to suggest that but I didn’t want to risk being a numpty (again) due to my rusty memory cells. 
Retired Old ■■■■:
gingerfold:
Weren’t they made with an aluminium alloy chassis for the light tare weight that was their main selling point?I was going to suggest that but I didn’t want to risk being a numpty (again) due to my rusty memory cells.
Jensen mainly made pantechnicon vans -very large and very light, under 3 ton unladen not restricted to 20mph.
Like most I was young when they were popular and they were becoming very poplular in van traffic like ours. I remember asking my father why he never had considered buying one and was told the bodies were riveted and were known to fall appart because of vibration problems and rivets fel out whilst they travelled along the road.
I remember my dad telling me about the perkins engine etc on rollers and the aluminium chassis,are there any still around.
There was one on the restored lorry circuit a few years ago, but I don’t know if it’s still around. I think that the complete vehicles were an integral construction with the body being fitted to the chassis in such a way that it contributed to the strength of the vehicle because of the aluminium chassis. Jenson also made a ‘Jen-Tug’, similar in concept to the Scammell Scarab, but nowhere near as successful or popular.
Hiya…if you go to the KR Walsh website they have just found a Jensen to restore. if you serch jensen their’s
already a site about them.
John