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Original 1931 Numbers
Chassis No. YM5027
Engine No. YM5027
Registration No. GY 7850
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This car - updated
Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. GY 7850
(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - February 2018) |
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England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member |
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1968
London-Sydney Marathon |
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Keith Schellenberg in the grand old
lady of the Marathon
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Car 84, sole Bentley
entrant in the Marathon |
The car at Bombay in India.
In the backdrop is the
Gateway of India |
Read about this below... |
The route... |
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Keith Schellenberg
1930 Bentley Sports Tourer in the
1968 London-Sydney Marathon.
Keith Schellenberg's vintage Bentley
(Car no. 84) was among the 56 car
entrants from Gt. Britain — the
oldest car participating, and the
only vintage Bentley (in fact the
only Bentley).
Unfortunately, the car was involved
in an 'accident' in Turkey, and though
it recovered from it, it fell far
behind and could not make it in time
to Bombay (now renamed Mumbai), on
the western coast of India from where
the cars were to sail to Australia
(Fremantle) for the last leg of the
rally (finishing at Sydney).
The Schellenberg Bentley covered the
following route: London - Paris -
Turin - Belgrade - Istanbul - Sivas
- Erzincan - Teheran - Kabul - Sarobi
- Delhi - Bombay
What happened to Chassis no. YM5027
in Turkey
(extracts from various reports
written at the time)
"...Car 84. K. Schellenberg,
British entry... Turkey (also)
claimed the oldest car in the rally,
the 1930 eight-litre Bentley Tourer
of British adventurer Keith Schellenberg.
He stopped his heavy car on the edge
of a road, only to have the bank collapse
and deposit the Bentley on its side
in the gully below... sadly ending
its quest in the Marathon, before
Erzincan."
"In the end there were 100 entrants,
98 of which actually started from
Crystal Palace. Unbeknown to the competitors,
Jack had been told by P&O, the
shipping company, that there was space
for only 70 cars on the ferry from
Bombay to Perth in Australia. As a
result everyone on the organisational
side was hoping that there would be
serious attrition on the way to Bombay.
As luck would have it, 72 cars actually
reached Bombay, and with a bit of
judicious pushing and shoving, all
72 were squeezed onto the boat. Sadly
it did not include the Schellenberg
Bentley which had gone off the road,
arriving in Bombay after an epic recovery
to find that the boat had sailed..."
"Vintage 8-liter Bentley of Keith
Schellenberg had developed a split
oil line and was one of the few cars
to be penalized on the road. It eventually
retired when the dirt road beyond
Sivas (a place in Turkey) proved
incapable of supporting its weight." |
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This
is how Alan Sawyer had described the
Turkey portion of the route prior
to the start of the rally:
In Turkey, chaotic traffic conditions
may exist in the last few miles into
Istanbul. The ferry across the Bosporus
to Asia runs every 15 minutes and
the crossing takes about 20 minutes.
Those minutes are vital to drivers
who have raced non-stop across Europe
to earn them valuable time. The roads
for the eastern half of Turkey are
reasonably good and, except for heavy
lorries, relatively free of traffic.
The Turkish truck drivers are unused
to cars travelling at faster speeds
than they can, so Marathon drivers
must use special care overtaking.
The section from Sivas to Erzincan
will be a moment of truth for many
drivers. The unsurfaced road with
ball-bearing gravel should effectively
destroy any competitor's illusions
that the Marathon route presents no
motoring problem. |
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Source:
Marathon 68
Posted: Mar 09, 2009 |
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| 1951-1953 |
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Car in the photograph
bears Reg. No. JVE 820
on the number plate |
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| EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION |
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| Chassis No. |
YM5027 |
| Engine No. |
YM5027 |
| Registration
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GY 7850 |
| Date of Delivery: |
Jul 1931 |
| Type of Body: |
Limousine |
| Coachbuilder: |
H J Mulliner |
| Type of Car: |
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| First Owner: |
W.F. Watson |
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More Info:
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"F/8054. 4 seater on 12'71/4" WB
for 1969 London-Sydney rally. Previously
fitted and raced with supercharger." |
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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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