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1929
Bentley 4½ Litre |
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Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis
No. FB3305
Engine No. FB3305
Registration No. GU 3063
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This car - updated
Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. GU 3063
(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - August 2019) |
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August 2019 |
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Found on NDR Limited website on August 7, 2019
1929 4½ Litre Tourer
We are delighted to give notice of the arrival of this endearing vintage Bentley. In black with with red leather this long wing touring Bentley has been well cared for by its long term owner who has enjoyed many tours around the world assuring us that it could happily carry out another straight away. Of this we have no doubt. Matching numbered and with a wonderful ownership history starting with the Greenall brewery family and subsequently owned by Victor Freestone of Freestone and Webb, the Metropolitan Police Force, Bentley engineer and racer Syd Lawrence and Peter Cadbury, who did not involve himself in the eponymous firm, but became well known for his flying career, television broadcasting chairmanship and motoring exploits.
With its bold stance, good history and strong engine this is a vintage Bentley through and through. Robust, purposeful and ready to go anywhere. Not simply driving, but motoring.
This car is for sale as of August 7, 2019 |
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Source:
NDR Limited
Posted: Aug 07, 2019 |
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2003 |
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England in 2003 / Owned by a BDC member |
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1929 BENTLEY 4½-LITRE
SPORTS Tourer. BODY BY TONY ROBINSON
ENGINE AND CHASSIS nos. FB 3305. Reg.
GU 3063
Engine, four-cylinder, overhead camshaft,
monobloc, bore 100 mm., stroke 140
mm., capacity 4,398c.c.: dual magneto
ignition: four-speed gearbox, right-hand
change: spiral bevel final drive:
footbrake on four wheels, handbrake
on rear wheels: suspension semi-elliptic
front and rear: wheelbase 10ft. 10in.:
tyre size 6.00 X 21: price new in
England (chassis) £1,050.
The 4½-litre Bentley was rather
a conservative sort of car for a manufacturer
to offer in 1927, as by this time
six-cylinderism was beginning to spread
down to the 2-litre class and really
big 'fours' were on their way out,
General Motors letting the production
of 30-98 h.p. Vauxhalls work itself
out at Luton. The Bentley's fixed-head
unit with its bevel-driven overhead
camshaft was inherited from the successful
3-litre and the new model offered
over 90 m.p.h. from 110 b.h.p., together
with excellent brakes and the ability
to maintain its tune over vast mileages.
This engine was also susceptible to
tuning and outputs of around 250 b.h.p.
were eventually achieved. 662 cars
were delivered before the old company
closed down in 1931 and one of Bentley's
five wins at Le Mans (1928) stands
to the credit of the 4½-litre.
This example (chassis FB 3305) is
mechanically unaltered and has had
only three owners from new, having
been in police hands for many years.
There is evidence of a rebuild circa
1938 and it currently carries a fourseater
replica fabric coachwork in the Vanden
Plas idiom by Tony Robinson. Condition
is described as very good in all respects
and it has been regularly maintained
during its current ownership. |
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Source:
Sotheby & Co. Auction of Veteran
and Vintage Vehicles X catalog, May
20, 1971
Posted: Dec 27, 2006 |
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EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION |
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Chassis No. |
FB3305 |
Engine No. |
FB3305 |
Registration
No. |
GU 3063 |
Date of Delivery: |
Jan 1929 |
Type of Body: |
Saloon (Weymann) |
Coachbuilder: |
H J Mulliner |
Type of Car: |
No info |
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First Owner: |
GREENALL E |
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More Info:
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"Metropolitan police 1938 - now
Robinson tourer." |
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Posted: Mar 01, 2007 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147 |
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Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651 |
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Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg
for his Chassis No. KL3590 |
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Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207 |
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Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165 |
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