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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis No. MR3400
Engine No. MR3400
Registration No. GU 5106

  This car - updated
Chassis No. MR3400
Engine No. MR3400
Registration No. GU 5106

(Updated with information from owner Robert M. Thomas. - August 2018)
 
August 2018
 

This car is presently owned by Robert M. Thomas.

 
     
     
  Source: Robert M. Thomas (Owner)
Posted: Aug 31, 2018
 
     
October 2012
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Photographs were taken at New England Region BDC Tour, 2012

 
     
     
  Source: Edward LaBounty
Posted: Oct 09, 2012
 
     
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September, 2009
   
 
 

I purchased this vehicle in England in 2007 and brought it back to the U.S. So it has been in the U.S. since 2007, not 2006. I should also mention that the coachwork on the car is from a 1928 4½ Litre. The coachwork is from Gill in London. It was put on the body in 2005 by the previous owner.

This photo was taken September 19, 2009 at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.

 
     
     
  Source: Robert M. Thomas (Owner)
Posted: Sep 19, 2012
 
     
2009
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These photographs have been taken by Edward LaBounty during NAVBM 2009.

 
     
     
  Source: Edward LaBounty
Posted: Jul 23, 2009
 
     
May 2008
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During the North American Vintage Bentley Meet 2008 in Stowe, Vermont.

 
     
     
  Source: Kurt Furger
Posted: Jun 04, 2008
 
     
2007
 

This car was purchased by Robert M. Thomas in 2007.

 
     
     
  Source: Robert M. Thomas
Posted: Sep 19, 2012
 
     
2006
In USA in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
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"I believe this was my father Frank Sowden's first Bentley. We lived in Yorkshire. My father would have had this car for a couple of years, before selling the it to a guy in Hawaii, I believe. Frank sold GU 5106 and then purchased a Speed Six, running chassis, and PPB 10, the 8 Litre, YF5006. This would have been in the early 1960s."

 
     
     
  Source: Peter Sowden (Son of former owner)
Posted: Jul 05, 2018
 
     
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"I have been turning out some old books and found a 'Bentley instruction book' which is very old and has the chassis number MR3400 written inside on the appropriate page. The book is fragile but complete and printed by Herbert Fitch and Co Ltd. There is a penciled statement that the car 'left works Feb/29'."

 
     
     
  Source: Roger Sibley
Posted: Aug 22, 2014
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. MR3400
Engine No. MR3400
Registration No. GU 5106
Date of Delivery: Apr 1929
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: ALBANY
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: MITCHELL R J H
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "In Hawaii."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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