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1925 Bentley 3 Litre
Chassis No. 940
Engine No. 941
Registration No. PP 3275
 
November 12, 2014
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  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Flora Haggis'
Posted: Dec 30, 2014
 
     
June 2011
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Bob Rippon, our regular
contributor with Chassis 940

Present car owner on left
 
 

"The car is in the U.K., from Australia, for the Bentley Drivers Club 75th anniversary.

I saw and heard the car (the present owner started the engine for me) at The Bentley Drivers Club rally at the B.D.C headquarters in Oxford. The photos show me (with the tie and stick) and the present owner who brought the car over from Australia for a tour of Britain and the Continent."

 
     
     
  Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Jun 30, 2011
 
     
June 2011
 

"The 3-litre Bentley Chassis No 940 Reg No PP3275 once owned by my father, is now back in the U.K. for a limited time. It is over here from Australia for The Bentley Drivers Club 75 anniversary, and is touring England and the continent. I am going to see it on Saturday at Ironstone Lane the headquarters of the BDC."

 
     
     
  Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Jun 24, 2011
 
     
February 2009
 

Chassis no. 940 is owned by Phillip Schudmak in Australia.

 
     
     
2005
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2005 Annual Meeting

 
     
     
  Source: The Bentley Drivers Club of Australia (BDCA)
Posted: Jan 13, 2007
 
     
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"Run from the Rock" BDCA Rally from Alice Springs to Melbourne.

 
     
     
  Source: The Bentley Drivers Club of Australia (BDCA)
Posted: Jan 13, 2007
 
     
2002
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BDCA Rally in the Barossa Valley 2002

 
     
     
  Source: The Bentley Drivers Club of Australia (BDCA)
Posted: Jan 13, 2007
 
     
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"A recently discovered photo — Reg PP 3275 Chassis No 940."

 
     
     
  Source: Bob Rippon
Posted: Jul 31, 2013
 
     
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Photograph was taken at a Bentley Drivers Club meeting at the Police Headquarters in Hutton near Preston Lancashire. The man in the flat cap smoking a pipe is my father. In front of my father, Henry Philip Rippon, is my brother (a fighter pilot in W.W. II) and in between them, his head just visible, is another of my brothers. We were a large family of five boys and two girls!!

 
     
     
  Source: R.H. Rippon (son of previous owner)
Posted: Feb 29, 2008
 
     
1949 - 1953
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Photograph showing both Reg. No. GP 1630 and PP 3275 was taken on Southport Sands.
   
 
 

My late father, Henry Philip Rippon, owned this car in 1949.

 
     
     
  Source: R.H. Rippon (son of previous owner)
Posted: Feb 29, 2008
 
     
1949
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Henry Philip Rippon's application to join the Bentley Drivers Club.

 
     
     
  Source: R.H. Rippon (son of previous owner)
Posted: Feb 29, 2008
 
     
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Blake's Basement c1946

Outside Three Stacks Rainhill

Peter Hampson at the wheel
 
 

PP3275 was found after WWII in a basement garage of car dealer J Blake & Co Ltd of Liverpool. The car sold to Peter Hampson for £250.00.

 
     
     
  Source: David J Hampson
Posted: Jul 14, 2011
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. 940
Engine No. 941
Registration No. PP 3275
Date of Delivery: Dec 1924
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: ST
   
First Owner: BARHAM H A
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1139 with a long wheelbase 3-door 4-seater Sports; eggshell black; 2/1925.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1139. Speed model engine, 14/53 axle."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 04, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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