This year I had been chairman of the Swedish club for 16 years and I decided to step down and let someone else take over. The members voted for Paul Matell who accepted. The member meeting also took decision to send me over to the JOC meeting to represent the Swedish club and to write an article about it in the club magazine The Interceptor. That's why I arrived at Manchester on a thursday just before the JOC meeting. I rented a Ford Escort and set off to find the Shrigley Hall Hotel. For that I needed a map so I stopped at a tank station to buy the 1993 Collins Road Atlas. Very good tool. Despite that I managed to take a wrong turn at some spot and ended up seeing the Jodrel Bank radio observatory which was a pleasant surprise to me as this is one of the importand sites for the SETI project. You can read more about that if you go to Misc pictures.
Shrigley Hall Hotel, which was once a monastery, is a beautiful place with a golf course just outside the door and ample room for a lot of Jensen cars in the parking lot. I don't remember the number of rooms, but the breakfast they serv in the mornings is for those of you who are HUNGRY when you wake up.
When I finally arrived in the afternoon there were a lot of cars (golfers?) outside, but a few Jensens had also assembled in the reserved part of the parking. I installed myself in the room and then went outside to meet Ron and Thelma Smith, the very devoted and excellent organizers, who were making final preparations for the meeting.
I have no clue as to how many Jensens were present in this meeting but it was definitely more than I ever saw before in one sight. All the usual models were represented, but I could not se any PW or older Jensen, nor any of the prototypes like P66 or Nova. There were a few Jensen Healeys but not many made it into my camera. My eyes were definitely most sensitive for the FF. Here I caught 8 FFs in one shot.
Some participants were really serious about the competition and spent hours cleaning and polishing and finally wrapped the pearl up for the night.
The participants in the contest were announced on a pole. The prototype S4 convertible belonged (-s?) to Graeme Dodd.
I found two early Interceptors, one sedan and one convertible.
A really nice CV8, - and lots of FF.
Another beautiful CV8 and the concour winner 541.
