There arrived in the office one grey evening some time last February a young man (relatively speaking) whose chief interest in life for the moment seemed to consist in "genuine" supercharged ex-Dorothy Paget-Birkin blower Bentleys. He was here quite a long while, delving into past volumes of The Autocar for information about these cars of the 1930s. We got chatting after he had finished his research work — he was hot on the trail of two of these machines that I gathered had been offered to him, and his quest was partly concerned with unearthing sufficient data to establish, if possible, that they were genuine "Birkin cars". It wasn't that he doubted the good faith of those who, apparently, had described them as such, but he wanted "gen" first hand from historical record.    Continued...