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1930 Bentley 6½ Litre |
Chassis No. NH2735
Engine No. NH2744
Registration No. UV 8639 |
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October
2014 |
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"The original
body has been acquired and will be
going back onto this car."
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Source:
Steve Hamilton (Owner)
Posted: Oct 16, 2014 |
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2006 |
In
England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member |
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2000 |
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"This car has
been in current ownership since 2000.
Work has been done to this matching
chassis and engine Speed 6 by two
very well known and respected Bentley
specialists (McKenzie Guppy/Grist)
as follows:
- New hubs all round for safety
- New Spinners to fit the new hubs
- New Wheels
- Brakes relined
- Rebuilt shock absorbers
- Clutch relined for good measure
- Equipped with C type gearbox
- Winged B mascot
- New Le Mans tourer body, by Roger
Cook of Swindon, commissioned and
put on in the previous owner's hands.
- Combined present and previous ownership
30 years.
- This car has done few miles overall
in the current ownership of 11+ years,
which includes one trip to Le Mans."
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Source:
Steve Hamilton (Owner)
Posted: Mar 31, 2013 |
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Source:
Sven Ljungström & Steve
Hamilton
Updated: Feb 28, 2013
Posted: Apr 08, 2008 |
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Fitted with a rare
fixed-head coupe body by H. J. Mulliner
and built under Weymann patents, this
car was originally owned by F. O.
Mills. At that time it was finished
in black. W. D. S. Lake had the car
rebuilt to the present form in light
grey fabric. This motor, one of 105
Speed Sixes produced in 1930, is capable
of 100 mph.
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Source:
Private Motor Car Collections
of Great Britain, Peter Hugo, 1973
Posted: Oct 08, 2007 |
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1930 BENTLEY 6½-LITRE
'SPEED SIX' TWO-SEATER FABRIC FIXED-HEAD
Coupe WITH DICKEY SEAT
BODY BY H. J. H J Mulliner
Engine no. NH 2744; Chassis no. 2735;
Reg. UV 8639
Engine, six-cylinder, overhead camshaft,
monobloc, bore 100 mm., stroke 140
mm., capacity 6,597 c.c.: magneto
and coil ignition: four-speed gearbox,
right-hand change: spiral bevel final
drive: footbrake, self-wrapping on
four wheels, handbrake on rear wheels:
suspension semi-elliptic front and
rear: wheelbase 11ft. 8½in,:
tyre size 7.00 X 21: price new in
England (chassis) £1,850.
The commercial failure of W. O. Bentley's
first six-cylinder car, unveiled at
the 1925 Olympia Show, has overshadowed
its very real merit as a vehicle with
a more than adequate standard of quietness,
a wheelbase long enough (at 12ft.
7½in.) to take formal coachwork
and a performance superior to the
contemporary Rolls-Royce. It was unfortunate
that the motoring public associated
the name of Bentley exclusively with
the 3-litre and were less than enthusiastic.
The 'Speed Six' of 1929 was a development
with raised compression, twin vertical
S.U. carburetters replacing the original
five-jet Smith instrument, and a radiator
with parallel sides. Speeds of over
90 m.p.h. were readily attainable
and the model's racing record was
distinguished: wins at Le Mans in
1929 and 1930, plus first and second
places in the 1930 Double Twelve at
Brooklands. It was appreciably rarer
than the Standard type, only 177 being
delivered as against 368 of the original
6½-litres. Though a 'Speed
Six' was displayed on the Bentley
stand at Olympia in October, 1930,
the model had already been phased
out in favour of the ultimate from
Cricklewood, the 8-litre which vindicated
its designer's ideas by selling a
hundred units at the depth of a Depression.
This car (chassis NH 2735) is an outstandingly
original specimen of a late-type short-chassis
'Speed Six' with the single-port head
and enlarged sump featured in 1930.
The only mechanical modification is
the use of twin S.U. electric fuel
pumps in place of the Autovac which
was standard equipment: this latter
has been retained and goes with the
vehicle. The body follows the style
of its period, with shallow screen
and side-mounted spare wheels: over
the past five years the whole car
has been progressively rebuilt to
a very high standard. Bills for approximately
£875 are available covering
work undertaken since 1964: major
items include a complete top and bottom
engine re-build, rebuilding of the
suspension and clutch and a recellulose
of the painted parts of the bodywork
in 1971. Only 6,000 miles have been
covered since the principal part of
the overhaul.
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Source:
Sotheby & Co. Auction of Veteran
and Vintage Vehicles X catalog, May
20, 1971
Posted: Dec 29, 2006 |
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Source:
The Great Cars, Ralph Stein,
1967
Posted: May 16, 2007 |
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EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION |
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Chassis No. |
NH2735 |
Engine No.
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NH2744 |
Registration
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UV 8639 |
Date of Delivery: |
Feb 1930 |
Type of Body: |
Coupe |
Coachbuilder:
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H J Mulliner |
Type of Car: |
SP2 |
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First Owner: |
MILLS T O |
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More Info:
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"Original body removed ca 1987,
Vanden Plas replica fitted. In SA." |
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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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