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1919 Bentley 3 Litre    
Original 1919 Numbers
Chassis No. EXP 2
Engine No. 163 (?)
Registration No. BM 8752

  This car - updated
Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. BM 8752

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - April 2016)
 
July 2019
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Photographs were taken at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, July 2019

 
     
     
  Source: Jeremy Rippon
Posted: Jul 30, 2019
 
     
July 2019
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"Please find attached a photo of EXP2, Registration No. BM 8752, taken at Goodwood Festival of Speed, 4 July 2019."

 
     
     
  Source: Nigel Catterall
Posted: Jul 18, 2019
 
     
June 2019
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"Bentley Motors Parade Lap before the race at Le Mans 2019"

 
     
     
  Source: Adrian Stevens
Posted: Jun 27, 2019
 
     
April 8, 2016
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Techno Classica, April 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Perico001'
Posted: Dec 27, 2016
 
     
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EXP 2 returns to the site of Bentley's first race
victory, at Brooklands, joined by a Speed 8
that won at Le Mans in 2003 and the
current Continental GT3

EXP 2 ambles along the Brooklands banking,
where it won Bentley's first race

There's nothing for the riding mechanic to
hang on to, as I soon discovered

The engine was advanced for its day,
the chassis less so

Back where it all began. Built in 1919,
EXP 2 is the oldest Bentley in existence
 
 
 

Bentley's Racing Heritage

Read article about EXP 2

 
     
     
  Source: The Telegraph, Photo credits Andrew Crowley
Posted: Nov 08, 2016
 
     
 

"In 1982 Tim Houlding published "The Legends and the Thunder - Number 1", which is a 72 page treatise on EXP2. Its final chapter, 'Maturity and the Hereafter' says that Tony Townshend acquired EXP2 in the 1950s, and that at that time it was fitted with its third engine (144) in a production-type frame, and sported an early Vanden Plas 4-seater body.

Of the components fitted to EXP2 when sold by Bentley Motors in 1923, only the engine (#144), radiator, bonnet, rear axle petrol tank, steering column, gearbox plus propshaft and associated dynamo and speedometer drives, and numerous chassis fittings were found to be present in the car."

 
     
     
  Source: Koke Twigg-Smith
Posted: Jun 05, 2016
 
     
 

"You should look into the history of Experimental No 2 and the fact that it may be sitting on a replica chassis! This car was built up from a few original EXP 2 parts by the late Gordon Russell and is now owned by the Teutonic version of Bentley Motors and probably insured for millions of pounds."

 
     
     
  Source: Alan Smith
Posted: Apr 19, 2016
 
     
May 2015
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Read article Classic Bentleys ready for action-packed summer season.

 
     
     
  Source: Bentley Motors
Posted: Jul 17, 2015
 
     
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Pebble Beach
   
 
 

EXP2, the second prototype 1919 3-Litre, the oldest surviving Bentley, owned by Bentley Motors.

 
     
     
  Source: RollsRoyce Foundation
Posted: Apr 27, 2011
 
     
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Klassikwelt Bodensee.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr
Posted: Mar 02, 2009
 
     
September 2008
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Goodwood Revival Meeting on September 21, 2008

 
     
     
  Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Sep 27, 2008
 
     
2007
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Byfleet Rally 2007. St George's Hill.

 
     
     
  Source: Picasa, posted by user 'Max'
Posted: Apr 27, 2011
 
     
2007
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Brooklands 2007.

 
     
     
  Source: Nonesuche
Posted: Jan 24, 2009
 
     
2007
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EXP 2 is the car on extreme right
   
 
 

Cars are shown on Booklands Race Track in June of 2007 during centenary celebration.

 
     
     
  Source: Bentley Media
Posted: Jun 18, 2007
 
     
2001
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Photograph was taken during the 2001 Brooklands Society Reunion.

 
     
     
  Source: The Brooklands Society
Posted: Aug 20, 2007
 
     
2001
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Photograph was taken at grand opening of Broughtons of Surrey showroom in 2001.

 
     
     
  Source: "Queste" magazine, Spring 2001
Posted: Dec 20, 2006
 
     
1996
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  Source: Stills from 'Top Marques' documentary, 1996
Posted: Apr 27, 2011
 
     
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"... remarkable car is the 1919 Bentley EXP 2, the second three-liter Bentley prototype developed by Walter Owen Bentley and his team, and now the oldest surviving Bentley in the world. Even by modern standards, the 1919 Bentley EXP 2 is impressive, its engine sporting four valves per cylinder in a pent-roof combustion chamber, cross-flow heads, overhead cam and two plugs per cylinder. In 1919 it was extraordinary."

"The three-liter Bentley was the benchmark for all subsequent Bentley models and proved a fast yet docile and superb handling car, capable of sustained high speeds and also highly durable and reliable."

 
     
     
  Source: Forbes
Posted: May 30, 2007
 
     
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  Source: Gear Wheels
Posted: Sep 07, 2006
 
     
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Bentley 3-Litre chassis

 
     
     
  Source: "Queste" magazine, Bentley Special Issue, 1984
Posted: Jan 29, 2007
 
     
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Clement in EXP2 at Brooklands.

 
     
     
  Source: Unknown
Posted: Nov 08, 2008
 
     
1922
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1922: The T.T., Isle of Man, Left to right: Ex No. 3 'W.O.' and Pennal; Hawkes and Browning; Clement and Saunders; and Hillstead and Ex No. 2 (the practice car).

 
     
     
  Source: Article by Darell Berthon in Profile Publications, 1967
Posted: May 24, 2007
 
     
1921
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1921: Ex No. 2 The Bentley wins its first race driven by Frank Clement at Brooklands

 
     
     
  Source: Article by Darell Berthon in Profile Publications, 1967
Posted: May 24, 2007
 
     
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"J.E. Foden in EXP2 shortly after he acquired her from Bentley Motors in September of 1923, as seen on page 67 of Tim Houlding's EXP2 book." Koke Twigg-Smith - Jun 24, 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Unknown
Posted: Dec 13, 2006
 
     
 

According to Michael Hay, J.E. Foden was the second owner of EXP 2.

(J.E. Foden was the first owner of Chassis no. 75.)

 
     
     
  Posted: Nov 07, 2008  
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. EXP 2
Engine No. 163 (?)
Registration No. BM 8752
Date of Delivery: 1919
Type of Body: 2 seater
Coachbuilder: Easter
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: No info
 
     
  More Info: 2nd prototype.  
     
     
  Posted: Sep 26, 2006  
     
 
 
 
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