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1930 Bentley 4½ Litre Supercharged    
Original 1930 Numbers
Chassis No. SM3905
Engine No. SM3904
Registration No. EU 919

  This car - updated
Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. EU 919

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - August 2018)
 
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"Ich bin im Besitz eines Kissen von einem Bentley EU 919... Ich würde dies gerne veräußern und bitte Sie daher höflichst um weitere Informationen über dieses Kissens."

Price: €1000

 
     
     
  Source: Falk Mähl
Posted: Jan 04, 2019
 
     
2008
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  Source: Flickr, photos posted by user 'cafe 426'
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
2006
In Switzerland in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
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"Front and side views of 4½ litre Supercharged Chassis number SM3905 at rest on the greensward with Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England in the background."

 
     
     
  Source: John S. Mackiernan
Posted: Apr 13, 2015
 
     
1999
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Mille Miglia, 1999

 
     
     
  Source: RREC, DE
Posted: Aug 11, 2014
 
     
1969
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Photograph was taken during "Sports Cars in Review", Jan. 17-Feb. 9, 1969, at Henry Ford Museum.

 
     
     
  Source: "Antique Automobile" magazine, Vol. 33, No. 4, Jul.-Aug. 1969.
Posted: Mar 05, 2008
 
     
1960s
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Blower 4 1/2 EU919 with Birkin replica body by Townshend.

(Four Bentleys from the Klein Collection in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in the 1960s. Nearest the camera is 3 litre Vanden Plas Speed Model YR5725, chassis LT1579, rebuilt to Kensington Gardens concours standard by Dick Moss. Next another Vanden Plas car, this time a 1928 4 1/2 litre chassis FT3210 delivered new to L. Du Pont Copeland, and blower 4 1/2 EU919 with Birkin replica body by Townshend. Finally a second blower 4 1/2, chassis MS3932 registered GN6087, with its original high-sided Vanden Plas four-seater body, a sister car to GO2641.)

 
     
     
  Source: Kalila Haddad
Posted: Sep 30, 2014
 
     
1961
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Easter meeting at Oulton Park, 1961

 
     
     
  Source: Facebook, posted by user 'David Cleary'
Posted: Aug 21, 2018
 
     
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Car was owned by William Klein, Jr., of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

 
     
     
  Source: Sports Cars in Review, Henry Ford Museum, 1969
Posted: May 08, 2007
 
     
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  Source: The Great Cars by Ralph Stein, 1967
Posted: Apr 23, 2007
 
     
1965
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Michigan, 1965.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photos posted by user 'cafe 426'
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
July 1958
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Padworth, UK - July 1958

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photos posted by user '54mge'
Posted: Jul 14, 2010
 
     
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  Source: Unknown
Posted: Sep 21, 2006
 
     
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William Klien Jr. with his Blower Bentley, Elizabethtown, Pa

 
     
     
  Source: Don Struke
Posted: Aug 01, 2011
 
     
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Original body.

 
     
     
  Source: Pipo Aymamí & Flickr, posted by user 'BoyBentley'
Updated: May 09, 2014
Posted: Oct 23, 2012
 
     
 

The first 25 production Supercharged 4½ Litre cars where Chassis Nos. SM3901-SM3925, all with "smooth-case" blowers. The next 25 were Chassis Nos. MS3926-MS3950 and had "rib-case" blowers. Production Blower Bentleys had handbrake handles made from rectangular stainless steel, whereas the five 4½ litre race cars for Tim Birkin had the "H" section handle, but were drilled for lightness.

 
     
     
  Source: Robert McLellan
Posted: Feb 20, 2008
 
     
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Chassis No. SM3905
Engine No. SM3904
Registration No. EU 919
Date of Delivery: Apr 1930
Type of Body: Saloon (Weymann)
Coachbuilder: MAYTHORN
Type of Car: 108
   
First Owner: D'ARCY Capt
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "D/7204. Maythorn f/h coupe then Knibbs & Parkyn d/h coupe (transferred to ch. HB 3408) now Le Mans replica by Townshend. Hydraulic brakes."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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