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  Jensen FF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jensen FF was an all wheel drive GT car produced by the British manufacturer Jensen between 1966 and 1971.
By the early 1970s, Jensen's primary markets were overseas (particularly the United States), and the FF could not be sold there.
Further Hemi engine equipped FF's were not built due to the limits of the suspension at extremely high speeds and the cost of importing the 426ci Hemi engine into britain was deemed too great.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jensen_FF   (457 words)

  
 Jensen FF: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Jensen FF was an all wheel drive Four wheel drive quick summary:
Four wheel drive, known as 4wd and 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power...
The jensen interceptor was a sporting gt-class car built in the united kingdom by jensen between 1966 and 1976....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jensen_ff1.htm   (509 words)

  
 CyberSnippets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jensen continued to be commercial body builders for their main business and the cars were more of an interesting sideline than a serious enterprise.
Harry Ferguson Research had entered into an arrangement with Jensen to develop and market a car with this system and by 1965 the Jensen FF was built into a modified version of the C-V8 with a longer chassis and Dunlop Maxaret anti-lock braking system originally developed for use on aircraft.
Jensen had continued as coachbuilders throughout the 1960s with a contract from Austin to build the Austin-Healey sports car bodies, so when this came to an end their financial backers, the Norcros Group, decided that an Italian designed GT car would fill the gap.
www.motorsnippets.com /cars/jensen   (1407 words)

  
 Jensen
The Jensen Interceptor (and FF) was clearly the most outstanding vehicles built by Jensen.
FF (or Ferguson Formula) split the torque at 67% rear, 37% to front which gave the car unreal handling qualities.
The FF's appearance was very similar to the Interceptor and both had much in common.
www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au /car_info_jensen.htm   (202 words)

  
 Drive.com.au - 1969 Jensen FF
The Jensen FF is quite an eye-catching car - "it still turns heads" - but it's something of a hybrid.
The Jensen most widely known in Australia is the Series III Interceptor, launched in 1966, but less well known is the Jensen FF (Ferguson Formula), claimed to be the "world's first production car with all-wheel-drive and anti-lock brakes".
The Jensen FF came with a tubular chassis frame and Chrysler 325 hp (242 kW) 6.3-litre V8.
www.drive.com.au /editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=9656   (1035 words)

  
 Classic Cars Page
Its 4WD was developed by FF development (which gave its name) and was already tested in a Cooper formula one racing car.
Jensen FF was built alongside its regular version, Interceptor, which had neither 4WD nor ABS.
Since the FF was too costly to build, it died in 1971 with a total of 320 cars made.
www.autozine.org /classic/gm.htm   (2951 words)

  
 The Jensen FF Home Page
Jensen FF With a Formula 1 derived All wheel drive transmission, Italian Styled body, Hand built British chassis and coachwork, and a 325 BHP American V8 engine, the Jensen FF is no ordinary car.
Jensen's records about FF production do not clearly identify exactly what parts of which cars were built where, and any clarification on these points will be greatly received.
In this section we dismantle 119/123, a low mileage FF that was parked in the Everglades for many years after being in an accident in the 70's.
www.geocities.com /jensenff   (1570 words)

  
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The Jensen brothers washed their hands in disgust, as did Chief Body Engineer Eric Neale, and so began a frantic program of work which continued until well into 1967 as a new steel-bodied version of the FF (as well as a C-V8 replacement, the Interceptor) were put into production.
When the FF was finally dropped from the catalogue, no-one seemed to notice or care that the "world's safest car" —; it won the Don Safety Trophy in 1966 and was Car magazine's Car of the Year in 1967 — had succumbed to the greatest leveller of all, the dictates of the buying public.
Jensens can therefore claim to have had a real-life counterpart to James Bond and his Aston Martin, though of course this was not something they could use in their publicity at the time.
www.users.bigpond.com /tfmuch/article_FF.htm   (3095 words)

  
 Jensen Austin Healey Connection
The next Jensen launched was in 1962 and titled the CV8, which as the name implies was powered by a V8 engine supplied by Chrysler complete with their excellent Torqueflite automatic transmission.
The Jensen Motor Company was not immune to the world of corporate takeovers and suffered that fate at the hands of the Norcross Group in the late 1950s.
Jensen lurched from crisis to crisis and the "energy crisis" of 1974 brought on by the Yom Kippur War resulted in the company being at the brink of collapse.
www.users.bigpond.com /acmefluid/JenAusHe.html   (2551 words)

  
 Jensen - GB Classic Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The two brothers, Alan and Dick Jensen first established a coachbuilding company in the 1920's, and the first bodywork that they produced was fitted on to an Austin Seven chassis.
A Jensen truck was later produced using a tubular alloy chassis.
Jensen later went through troubled times, but today Jensen is once again producing cutting edge sports cars.
www.gbclassiccars.co.uk /jensen.html   (225 words)

  
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The deeper recess with beveled edges for the twin vents on Italian front wings on the FF are the most dramatic indication of an early Italian bodied car.
FF 36 currently has the superior quality door handles, but the poorer West Bromwich trim around the doors is evident.
FF's 11 and 13 may be Italian cars that lacked this feature.
www.lupine.demon.co.uk /italianffs.html   (1089 words)

  
 The Jensen FF archives
Ulric Woodhams purchased his first Jensen in 1976 at the age of 21, and joined the Jensen Owners' Club that same year.
In 1995 the author became the FF Registrar for the Jensen Owners' Club and today is the leading authority on the FF model.
Any information relating to former owners of Jensen FF cars (if you were a former owner, we would be delighted to hear from you).
www.thejensenff.com /archive.htm   (287 words)

  
 Simplified Spelling Society : Spelling system mixes.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
According to Hammarstrom (in Jensen 521), the letters for B, D, O, X hail from a Southern Italian Greek alphabet.
Jensen (521) notes that the letters C, K, Q were originally used in Latin according to Etruscan usage: C in front of /e, i/; K in front of /a/; Q in front of /u, o/.
Seebold (441), Krause (38 ff.), Jensen (571) and Coulmas (1996: 444 ff.) think that the Runic alphabet is a mixture of North Italic/Alpine alphabets with additional Latin influence.
www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j31/mixes.php   (2636 words)

  
 Jensen FF - GB Classic Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Jensen FF was launched at the 1966 Earls Court motor show at the same time as the Interceptor.
The FF front wings were longer and had double air vents fitted to them (as opposed to the Interceptors one), and the FF bonnet had an air scoop incorporated in it, but the main difference between the two cars was mechanical.
The FF was a technically very advanced car for its day and was the first British car to feature permanent 4-wheel drive and anti-lock braking.
www.gbclassiccars.co.uk /jensen_ff.html   (232 words)

  
 Jensen Motors - New and Used Car Parts for Jensens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Richard Appleyard Engineering Parts Limited have been dealing in new and used Jensen car parts for over 10 years and in that time we have accumulated a vast array of new and used stock for every conceivable type of Jensen.
We travel all over the country trying to purchase retired Jensen vehicles for our used parts warehouse which is also based in Nottingham.
Jensen car parts can also be purchased from one of the many trade events we stand throughout the year, so if you require that special part for you Jensen try our new and used parts telephone hotline or send us a email from the contacts link above.
www.jensen.co.uk   (173 words)

  
 Flavour - Studies of low volatility oxidation products of sensory significance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Studies of protein oxidation in the presence of lipids are the focus in a collaboration project with Dr. Earl Stadtman at NIH (Bethesda, MD,USA).
Refsgaard, H.H.F., Brockhoff, P.B., Jensen, B. Biological variation of lipid constituents and distribution of tocopherols and astaxanthin in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
Jensen, B., Refsgaard, H.H.F., Olafsdóttir, G. Headspace and extraction methods for analysis of volatile and semivolatile compounds in fish; in Methods to Determine the Freshness of Fish in Research and Industry.
www.dfu.min.dk /product_uk/Projects/2473_uk.htm   (270 words)

  
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All kidding aside, the Jensen Brothers continued to build historic vehicles such as the first car with a fiberglass body and 4 wheel disc breaks decades ahead of the Corvette (yes you can see one at the EX).
Heads Up Display was tried on a prototype Jensen Healey which also had a 16 valve 2L aluminum 4 cylinder Lotus motor circa 1972 this type is not at the C.O.T.C. it is difficult to include all the cars.
It is sad that the car at the EX is the only Jensen FF in Canada and sadder still if you missed the show because it is only scheduled North American stop.
www.lupine.demon.co.uk /cotc.html   (1028 words)

  
 Articles - Sports car   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Most modern cars use front wheel drive (FF) where the engine is in the front and drives the front wheels.
However the FF layout is quite common in small Japanese sport cars such as Honda CR-X, Subaru Alcyone SVX, Toyota Celica, Mitsubishi Eclipse...
The FF layout has some advantages in small sport cars since it allows you to reduce weight (no need for gearing and propshaft) and size (no intrusion from the transmission tunnel).
www.seekj.com /articles/Sports_car   (1437 words)

  
 4Car Feature - Forgotten 4x4s - from Channel 4
Today we tend to think of Subaru and Audi as the most committed makers of four-wheel drive road cars (as distinct from off-road mud-pluggers in the Land Rover mould) but it was a British company called FF Developments that pioneered the systems seen in today's 4x4 road cars, 35 years ago.
Jensen, a little-known company from West Bromwich, got its name in the history books by having the vision to use FF's technology on a production road car, the fabulous Jensen FF of 1966.
There were many other prototypes built during the sixties and seventies - many of them by FF who developed the crucial viscous coupling technology - but it was the Audi Quattro that reawakened interest in four-wheel drive as a safe way of delivering high performance.
www.channel4.com /4car/feature/topten/forgotten-4x4s/forgotten-4x4s.html   (302 words)

  
 SteinIndex
This is Jensen FF mk1, chassis no 119/134.
Jensen FF is a 2+2 with constant 4WD, ABS and anti-spin.
Jensen FF 's story you can access in this link.
home.online.no /~s-espe/stein/jensen/jindexen.htm   (159 words)

  
 The Seven Tablets of Creation: Introduction
In 1890 Professor Jensen, in his studies on the Babylonian cosmogony, included a translation of the legends together with a transliteration and a number of valuable philological notes and discussion.
In 1896 a third German translation of the legends made its appearance; it was published by Professor Delitzsch and included transliterations and descriptions of the various tablets and fragments inscribed with portions of the text.
In the most recent translations of the Creation Series, those of Delitzsch and Jensen, use was made in all of twenty-one separate tablets and fragments which had been identified as inscribed with portions of the text of the poem.
www.sacred-texts.com /ane/stc/stc03.htm   (14108 words)

  
 Audi Quattro Sport - Modern Racer - Modern Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It featured viscous coupling differential locks for both the center and rear differentials, a system that is still used extensively today, and the result was incredible stability.
But Jensens were impossibly expensive, a roughly twice what a contemporary Jaguar E-Type cost, so it came as no surprise when Jensen FF production ceased in 1972.
From a purely technical standpoint, the first-generation or "ur-quattro" system wasn't as advanced as the old Jensen FF, because it used manually locked and unlocked center and rear differentials, but Audi quickly shifted to "Torsen" (for "torque sensing") center diff and read limited-slip differential.
www.modernracer.com /classics/audiquattrosport.html   (1044 words)

  
 Health Connections Newsletter - February 2006
FF John Jensen of Ladder 174 and former FF Joe Kazlauskas became the newest heroes to Ms Brooke Williams of upstate Governeur NY and Mr.
FF John Jensen stood at the podium while Ms.
Former FF Joe Kazlauskas was also met with the same emotion as Mr.
www.nyc.gov /html/fdny/html/emp_resources/health_connections/2006/feb06.shtml   (1192 words)

  
 Jensen
Jensen Cars - Dedicated to owners and enthusiasts of the Interceptor, FF, C-V8, 541, Jensen-Healey, Jensen GT and the recently announced S-V8.
Jensen FF - The first full time 4x4 V8 Interceptor Coupe.
Jensen Healey Preservation Society - Established in 1990, an independent, non-profit corporation run by volunteers helping owners stay informed: Features membership information, technical details and the history of the club.
www.oldironlinks.com /makes_models/jensen.html   (176 words)

  
 First 4 WD Super Cars Gather at Yorkshire Spectacular   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first production car with four-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes the Interceptor-based FF was launched at the 1966 Earls Court motor show to International acclaim, so much that "Car" magazine voted it Car of the Year in 1967.
The flagship of the Jensen range was designed to be the safest high performance car in the world and it achieved this nearly 20 years before anyone else.
A standard Jensen Interceptor was £4,460 but the Jensen FF was a whopping £6,018.
www.motorfestival.co.uk /jensen2.htm   (295 words)

  
 1969 Mk 1 Jensen FF
Photo showing the front brake pipes and their junction with the front to rear brake pipe.
Out of interest I have an "Easybleed" brake bleeding kit which I tried to use on the FF, but because of the large diameter Girling brake reservoir caps a suitable sealing cap for the system is not available.
To my surprise the rivets in the top attaching the fl caps were easy to unscrew using a pair of pliers to grip the domed heads.
www.jensenff.co.uk /page5.html   (1737 words)

  
 Four-wheel drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One startling snippet testifying to the durability of Land Rovers was when it was noted on the occasion of the marque's 50th anniversary in 1998 that over 70% of all Land Rovers ever built were still in use.
However, it was not until Jensen applied the Formula Ferguson four-wheel drive system to their 1966 Jensen FF that the system was used in a production sports car, but with a total of 320 build units this did not sell in appreciable numbers.
The first manufacturer to develop four-wheel drive for road-going cars was Subaru, who introduced the mass-produced 4WD Leone in 1972.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Four_wheel_drive   (2823 words)

  
 The Jensen Model Cars Page
To date there is no model of the Jensen Healey available although the Jensen Mailing list has been discussing making one available for some time, and I also know of a UK model company who are willing to make one available.
The Dinky FF has a number of variations - two are shown, one has a registration number the other doesn't and there are other possible differences such as wheels and also a rare fl version.
Playart made an FF in around 1/63 scale and this is very detailed with an engine (if you see what I mean...).
www.british-steel.org /brochure/models.html   (248 words)

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