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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis No. HB3405
Engine No. MR3394
Registration No. KP 7913

  This car - updated
Chassis No. HB3405
Engine No. MR3394
Registration No. KP 7913

(Updated with information from Classic Driver. - June 2018)
 
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 is for sale as of June 11, 2018.

 
     
     
  Source: Classic Driver
Posted: Jun 11, 2018
 
     
2014
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Hampton Court Palace Concours, 2014

 
     
     
  Source: Sports Car Digest
Posted: Aug 25, 2018
 
     
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"1929 Bentley 4½ Litre Drophead Martin Walter body"

 
     
     
  Source: Pinterest, posted by user 'Stefano Milone'
Posted: Apr 03, 2015
 
     
October 2011
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Bentley 4½ litre 1929 Drophead Coupe with Dickey by Martin Walter Ltd.
Black with black hood and dark red hide upholstery. All original and in excellent condition. Full history. Very attractive coachwork.

£510,000

This car is for sale as of October 17, 2011.

 
     
     
  Source: P&A Wood
Posted: Oct 17, 2011
 
     
2010
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BDC Concours, 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Jun 27, 2013
 
     
2007-2008
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2007

RROC Meet Washington, 2007

Steamworks Concours Vancouver, 2008

Steamworks Concours Vancouver, 2008
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: Kidston, SmugMug, posted by user 'Sneed Adams', Flickr, posted by user 'T&T and Mr B' & PNR Classics
Posted: Aug 25, 2014
 
     
2006
In USA in 2006 / Owned by a BDC & RROC member
August 2005
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This photograph was taken during the 2005 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Aug. 8-17, 2005.

Motoring Classic Departs. (Photo: Bruce Whitaker)

 
     
     
  Source: MSN Autos
Posted: Sep 12, 2007
 
     
 
2004
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Start of Pebble Beach
Caravan, 2004

Waiting in line to go on the Pebble Beach Drive

Annie & Steve Norman stop at Mt. St. Helens in Washington State on the way to Pebble Beach

During the Pebble Beach trip

During the Pebble Beach trip

During the Pebble Beach trip

During the Pebble Beach trip

During the Pebble Beach trip

At CCCA
Christmas Party Seattle

Carillon Point 2004
   
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: Stephen F. Norman (Owner)
Posted: Jul 16, 2007
 
     
2004
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2004 Kirkland, WA Concours. Photo by Dave Quick.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr
Posted: Jan 22, 2009
 
     
 
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)

 
     
     
  Source: Motor Snippets
Updated: Feb 14, 2009
Posted: Jul 27, 2007
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. HB3405
Engine No. MR3394
Registration No. KP 7913
Date of Delivery: Jul 1929
Type of Body: Coupe
Coachbuilder: Martin Walter
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: KENDALL Dr P E
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Original body still fitted."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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