| Description | Includes:
Letter from Kevin Beattie, Director & Chief Engineer, Jensen Motors to Geoff Healey (27 February 1970) with photocopy of 'new healey project' report containing vehicle description, engineering programme, production programme, production cost estimate, engineering & tooling estimate, cash flow estimate;
Letter from Beattie to Geoff Healey (6 April 1970) containing main points discussed at a meeting with Healey on 26 March (drawing and schemes, wheel, tyre and brake investigation, prototype car, Vauxhall supply);
Two versions of agenda for meeting (30 April 1970) and minutes of meeting (1 May 1970) - with notes on rear end styling, front end construction, one piece bonnet, exterior door handle, interior styling;
Copy letter from Geoff Healey to Beattie (24 June 1970) with list of Vauxhall contacts;
Letter from [Alfred Vickers], Jensen Motors Ltd to Geoff Healey (23 December 1970) concerning Vauxhall quotation for their kit for the Healey car and disappointment at it, subsequent enquiries to Ford and need to keep everyone informed of contacts made to third parties to avoid situation that occurred with Ford when it appeared that one part of Jensen did not know what the other was doing;
Copy letter from Beattie to Peter Chell, Vauxhall Motors Limited (21 May 1971) noting points of meeting with him about engines (also covering problems);
Letter from Beattie to Geoff Healey (12 January 1971) about instruments not being included in original cost estimates for the car, and including copy notes on visit to Vauxhall Motors visit to Jensen on 6 January 1971 and brake pull tests;
Copy letter from Beattie to Chell (15 June 1971) concerning loan of 2.3 twin carburettor high compression and Federal specification engines;
Memo. (3 June 1971) about use of Pirelli tyres for production purposes on the new Healey, and also keeping up contact with Dunlop;
Copy letter from Beattie to G.L. Branca, Managing Director, Fiat (England) Ltd (28 July 1971) about Fiat not in a position to supply gearboxes at this stage;
Copy report of short road test by [Syd] Enever in the first prototype car (7 September 1971);
Letter from Alfred Vickers to Geoff Healey (17 September 1971) about upcoming Earls Court Motor Show and communicating with the press via the PR company working for Jensen;
Copy notes on the Geneva Motor Show in March 1972 - travel arrangements, itineraries. |