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1930 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1930 Numbers
Chassis No. PB3536
Engine No. PB3537
Registration No. VR 5906
   This car - updated
Chassis No. PB3536
Engine No. PB3537
Registration No. VR 5906
(Updated with information from owner Julian Grimwade. - 2007)
 
January 2020
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1930 Bentley 4½-Litre
New Year's Day Gathering, January 2020
Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Zack's Motor Photos'
Posted: Feb 04, 2020		  
     
September 2019
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Goodwood Revival, September 2019

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Jan Martin'
Posted: Dec 19, 2019		  
     
August 2019
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Seen at Brooklands, 11th August 2019.

  
     
     
  Source: Steven
Posted: Sep 27, 2019		  
     
October 2018
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1930 Bentley 4½-Litre with a "Bobtail" replica body
Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble - Sunday 7th October 2018

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Feb 18, 2019		  
     
January 2018
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William Medcalf, Liss, West Sussex

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'The 289 Register'
Posted: Mar 09, 2018		  
     
January 29, 2017
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Brooklands VSCC, January 2017

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Clive Barker'
Posted: Feb 08, 2017		  
     
October 9, 2016
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Brooklands Autumn Motorsport Day, October 2016

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Anthony Britton'
Posted: Jun 14, 2017		  
     
March 20, 2016
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Brooklands - Bentley Drivers Club Tests, March 2016

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Graham Chrimes'
Posted: Apr 04, 2016		  
     
February 21, 2016
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Brooklands Museum, February 2016

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Neil Randell'
Posted: Apr 01, 2016		  
     
January 2016
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VSCC New Year's Driving Tests, January 2016

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Clive Barker'
Posted: Feb 20, 2016		  
     
January 1, 2016
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Brooklands - New Year's Day Gathering 2016.

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by users 'Graham Chrimes', 'Roger Lighterness' & 'Clive Barker'
Updated: Jan 19, 2016
Updated: Jan 18, 2016
Posted: Jan 07, 2016		  
     
March 18, 2015
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Brooklands - Bentley Drivers Club Driving Tests - March 2015

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Graham Chrimes'
Posted: May 22, 2015		  
     
January 1, 2015
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Brooklands New Year's Day gathering, January 2015

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by users 'Roger Lighterness' & 'Clive Barker'
Posted: Jan 15, 2015		  
     
February 2014
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VSCC Trials Brooklands, February 2014

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'peezedgee'
Posted: Dec 18, 2014		  
     
September 22, 2013
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Brooklands, September 2013

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'peezedgee'
Posted: Dec 13, 2014		  
     
September 2013
   
 
 

Shere Hill Climb, September 2013

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'growler2ndrow'
Posted: Sep 08, 2014		  
     
August 4, 2013
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Classic Days - Schloss Dyck, August 2013

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Frits Klijn'
Posted: Jul 25, 2015		  
     
March 3, 2013
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Goodwood Breakfast Club, March 2013

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'f1jherbert'
Posted: Mar 24, 2015		  
     
January 2013
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This photograph was taken at Brooklands Museum, New Year's Day 2013. 

  
     
     
  Source: Tim Summers
Posted: Jan 28, 2013		  
     
March 23, 2012
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Benjafileds AGM, March 2012

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'Adam Singer'
Posted: Nov 27, 2014		  
     
2012
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VR 5906 in 'Midsomer Murders', TV Series, 1997-2012
 
 

My Bentley VR5906 was featured in the TV program 'Midsomer Murders'. This was filmed in 2010 and aired early 2011. The Episode was called 'Death in the Fast Lane'.

My car has appeared in several TV programs including Chris Barrie, Britain’s Greatest Machines (you already have a shot from this via National Geographic below) and Supersizers Eat the Twenties, an English TV Lifestyle/Food program.

  
     
     
  Source: Julian Grimwade (Owner)
Posted: Sep 27, 2012		  
     
2012
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This photograph was taken during the Vintage Sports Car Club New Year's driving tests event at Brooklands 2012.

  
     
     
  Photos courtesy: Stuart Matthews, Lightview Photographic Company Ltd, UK
Posted: Mar 31, 2012		  
     
2011
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Classics on the Green Harpenden, 2011

  
     
     
  Source: Russell Browne
Posted: Jul 05, 2013		  
     
2009-May 2010
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Brooklands, 2009
Brooklands, May 2010 		 
 
 

 

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Kasey6' and Smugmug, photos posted by user 'Mark Brock'
Updated: Oct 13, 2012
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 		 
     
2008
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Goodwood 2008
Goodwood 2008
Hand and Spear Brooklands event 2008

Brooklands 2008
Le Mans Classic 2008
VSCC Pomeroy Trophy 2008

Classics on the Green Harpenden, July 2008
Goodwood Revival Meeting on September 21, 2008 		 
 
 

 

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'exfordy', Benjafield's Racing Club, Classic and Performance Car, Picasa, posted by user 'Minimarj', Forums Auto Sport, posted by user 'frogeye59', Russell Browne and Bob Rippon
Updated: Jul 05, 2013
Updated: Oct 13, 2012
Posted: Sep 29, 2007 		 
     
April 2008
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Bentley Boys at Brooklands in April 2008.

  
     
     
  Source: Nonesuche and Flickr, posted by user 'Dom'
Posted: Jan 24, 2009		  
     
2007
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"I am the current owner of this car. I bought it in February 2005. I have some early history, up to 1936 and since 1987 but there is a big gap postwar. It was owned by Townshend in 1959 but no idea of body style then. It is believed to have been a saloon then a shooting brake, then an open four seater. It is now a very accurate recreation of the Bobtail car as raced in 1929. It is still a matching numbers car and I believe it to be one of the first all Electron cars."

  
     
     
  Source: Julian Grimwade (Owner)
Posted: Jun 09, 2007		  
     
2007
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1st car Brooklands 2007.

  
     
     
  Source: Nonesuche
Posted: Jan 24, 2009		  
     
July 20, 2006
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Brooklands, July 2006

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by users 'Raphael Dobbelaere'
Posted: Apr 14, 2015		  
     
March 12, 2006
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Brooklands Museum Bentley Gathering, March 2006

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Clive Barker'
Posted: Feb 28, 2015
  
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
2005-2006
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Brighton Speed Trials Centenary, 2005

Le Mans Classic 2006
BDC Silverstone, 2006
 
 

 

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'welshmotorsport', Arcbrno (Czechoslovakia) and Russell Browne
Updated: Jul 05, 2013
Posted: Oct 13, 2012		  
     
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  Source: Chris Card, Motor Snaps and NatGeo TV
Updated: Oct 13, 2012
Updated: Mar 18, 2010
Posted: Jan 16, 2008 		 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. PB3536
Engine No. PB3537
Registration No. VR 5906
Date of Delivery: Feb 1930
Type of Body: Saloon
Coachbuilder: CARLTON
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: SMITH H W
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Was station wagon, then 4 seater, Rebuilt as "Bobtail" replica (YW 2557, chassis KM3088) 1984/87 - body by H&H."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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