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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre |
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Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis No. HB3405
Engine No. MR3394
Registration No. KP 7913
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This car - updated
Chassis No. HB3405
Engine No. MR3394
Registration No. KP 7913
(Updated with information from Classic Driver. - June 2018) |
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June 2018 |
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Found on Classic Driver website on June 11, 2018
1929 Bentley 4½ Litre - DHC By Martin Walter
Chassis number: HB3405 ~ Engine number: MR3394
Year of manufacture: 1929
Car type: Convertible / Roadster
Drive: RHD
Condition: Restored
Interior colour: Red
Interior type: Leather
Number of doors: 2
Number of seats: 4
Location: UK
Exterior colour:Black
Gearbox: Manual
Description
This most handsome 4½-Liter is rare indeed, for not only is it a "matching number" car with its original engine and chassis but it still carries the elegant drophead body that was fitted to it when it was delivered to its original owner, Dr. P.E.Kendall, in July 1929. Moreover, the distinguished coachbuilding firm of Martin Walter of Folkestone, Kent, is recorded in the painstaking analysis of Bentley Works Service Records by the late Stanley Sedgwick as only having bodied half a dozen 4 1/2-Liter Bentleys out of the total production of 665 chassis - a tourer, three Weymann saloons and two coupes, of which this is one.
Remaining on one family ownership for several decades this is one of the most original Bentley 4.5 Litre cars in existence.
This car
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Source:
Classic Driver
Posted: Jun 11, 2018 |
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"1929 Bentley
4½ Litre Drophead Martin Walter body" |
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Source:
Pinterest, posted by user 'Stefano Milone'
Posted: Apr 03, 2015 |
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2006 |
In
USA in 2006 / Owned by a BDC & RROC member |
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2003 |
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Coachwork by Martin
Walter License No KP7913 (UK) Chassis
No HB3405 Engine No 3394.
To many, the 4 1/2-Liter Bentley is
the archetypal vintage car. Launched
in 1927 as a logical development of
the much-loved 3-Liter model, and
powered by a similar 16-valve fixed-head
overhead camshaft engine, in 1928
the 4 1/2-Liter brought the marque
the third of its five Le Mans victories.
However, it was also a very fine fast
touring car capable of taking any
kind of coachwork. Perhaps the most
practical coachwork on the 4 1/2-Liter
was the drophead coupe, yet few 4
1/2-Liter Bentleys survive with this
type of body.
This most handsome 4 1/2-Liter is
rare indeed, for not only is it a
"matching number" car with
its original engine and chassis but
it still carries the elegant drophead
body that was fitted to it when it
was delivered to its original owner,
Dr. P.E.Kendall, in July 1929. Moreover,
the distinguished coachbuilding firm
of Martin Walter of Folkestone, Kent,
is recorded in the painstaking analysis
of Bentley Works Service Records by
the late Stanley Sedgwick as only
having bodied half a dozen 4 1/2-Liter
Bentleys out of the total production
of 665 chassis - a tourer, three Weymann
saloons and two coupes, of which this
is one. The English society magazine
"Tatler" was greatly impressed
by the flexibility of the 4 1/2-Liter
Bentley: "What is very much to
the point is that this car can be
'punka-te-punkaed' round the West
End on top-gear at a veritable crawl.
That combination of dash and docility
- as unusual as it is desirable
seems always to characterize Bentley
design, and it puts the car almost
in a class by itself."
Was at Bonhams auction, 2003. (Did
not sell) |
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Source:
Motor Snippets
Updated: Feb 14, 2009
Posted: Jul 27, 2007 |
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EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION |
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Chassis No. |
HB3405 |
Engine No. |
MR3394 |
Registration
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KP 7913 |
Date of Delivery: |
Jul 1929 |
Type of Body: |
Coupe |
Coachbuilder: |
Martin Walter |
Type of Car: |
No
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First Owner: |
KENDALL Dr P E |
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More Info:
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"Original body still fitted." |
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Posted: Mar 01, 2007 |
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