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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis No. FB3305
Engine No. FB3305
Registration No. GU 3063

  This car - updated
Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. GU 3063

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - August 2019)
 
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

 
     
     
  Source: NDR Limited
Posted: Aug 07, 2019
 
     
July 25, 2010
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Bentley Tourer - 1929

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Peter Barker'
Posted: May 14, 2015
 
     
July 18, 2010
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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre (Chassis No. FB3305) H.J. Mulliner saloon body.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Peter Barker'
Posted: May 06, 2015
 
     
September 2009
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Up close through Joyce's lens...
 
 

These photographs were taken by Joyce Huey of Ellicott City, Maryland just before the 'Bentley Drivers Club's USA Fall Tour' commenced earlier this month.

Joyce was by accompanied her husband J.W. 'Pete' Huey, a long time Bentley enthusiast. (Click here to read Pete's account of the 'Official Start' of BDC's USA Fall Tour.)

 
 
 
     
  Source: J.W. 'Pete' Huey
Posted: Sep 15, 2009
 
     
October 2007
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Photograph was taken at the Bentley Driver's Club New Zealand Tour in October, 2007

 
     
     
  Source: Classic Car Magazine, New Zealand
Posted: Oct 04, 2010
 
     
2006
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Photographs were taken at Surrey Oaks, Newdigate in England in July 2006.

 
     
     
  Source: Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society
Posted: Aug 14, 2006
 
     
2003
In England in 2003 / Owned by a BDC member
2001
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International Bentley Tour of South Africa, 2001

 
     
     
  Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Jul 02, 2013
 
     
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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.

 
     
     
  Source: Sotheby & Co. Auction of Veteran and Vintage Vehicles X catalog, May 20, 1971
Posted: Dec 27, 2006
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
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
   
First Owner: GREENALL E
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Metropolitan police 1938 - now Robinson tourer."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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