Jensen V8 "Home Market" Service Bulletins Book
By Richard Calver
Richard's newest, most deluxe, historical, edited compendium of factory
Service Bulletins for the V8 cars, 1963-1976, and should be of interest to
anyone who owns one of the referenced models which is to say the C-V8s,
FFs and all the different kinds of Interceptors (sorry, no Jensen Healey
models in here).
It's a huge production — 560 pages between the covers. It's bound in
leather and each book comes with a numbered bookplate in this limited
edition of 1000 copies. It's the most "exclusive" book of any kind yet
produced about Jensen cars and I think you'll agree when you see it that it
would make a worthwhile addition to any Jensen enthusiast's library.
The Service Bulletins for the V8 cars exist in two series. One is the "Home
Market" series, produced at West Bromwich and intended mainly for the
British cars and the non-USA export market. These are what you will find
in the latest book. For the USA and Canada, Kjell Qvale's Jensen Motors Inc.
in San Francisco prepared a separate series based on (but distinct from)
the factory series, running from 1970 to 1976. Richard hopes to produce
a companion volume covering these in due course but, until then, our north American friends should find plenty of interest in this first installment.
Contents-wise, the book provides an essentially complete collection of the
Home Market Bulletins in the given period. Included are approximately
300 Bulletins and other documents of interest together with most of the
Parts Bulletins issued as supplements between 1971 and 1974. There is an
Annex containing other technical documents of interest, plus the
factory-issued indexes to the Bulletins and a separate index to the
contents of the book. In all, it adds up to about 125,000 words!
No photos, BUT, there are approximately 130 diagrams and technical
drawings included, plus another 130 drawings of the Special Tools
required to service Interceptors.
