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1925 Bentley 3 Litre    
Original 1924 Numbers
Chassis No. 750
Engine No. 745
Registration No. XW 1604

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Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. XW 1604

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with updates. - December 2016)
 
July 2016
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Wortley Hall Classic & Vintage Vehicle Rally, July 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Alfred Noakes'
Posted: Jun 21, 2017
 
     
July 2013
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Cannon Hall Classic Car & Bike Rally, July 2013

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Alfred Noakes'
Posted: Dec 14, 2016
 
     
July 2013
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Rally Barnsley Yorkshire, July 2013

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Alfred Noakes'
Posted: Aug 22, 2013
 
     
July 2011
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Wortley Hall Rally, July 2011

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'woodytyke'
Posted: May 07, 2014
 
     
July 2010
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Wortley Hall Rally, UK - July 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'wookytyke'
Posted: Jul 16, 2010
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
OWNERSHIP HISTORY
 
1925-1926 Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp
1926-1927 C.A.McLeod
1927-1937 Captain Macardle
1937-1948 E. Dudley
1948-1950 Oliver Wells
1950-1957 Sq. Ldr. Charles Blundell Owen
1957-1968 John Jefferson Mitchell
1968-1990 Raymund Edwin Grant/Eddy Keep who rebuilt the car from a rolling chassis
1990-1995 Peter Norfolk
1995-1996 Richard Walter Freestone
1996-2003 Peter David Keevil
2004-2006 Kurt Furger who took the car to France, Switzerland and New Zealand
 
     
     
  Source: Kurt Furger
Posted: Apr 18, 2008
 
     
2004
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Photographs were taken during the 2004 Alpine Drive in Switzerland.

 
     
     
  Source: Bentley Drivers Club of Switzerland
Posted: Sep 18, 2007
 
     
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Chassis no. 750. A very correct matching numbers car, with original VdP all alloy body. Fold flat screen plus aero screens. Full weather equipment. Fully sorted and in superb condition. Recently completed B.D.C. New Zealand Rally.

 
     
     
  Source: Old English Classics
Posted: Nov 13, 2006
 
     
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Fitted with its original Van Den Plas 4-seater "Bathtub" Tourer Body, this car represents the archetypal vintage racing Bentley, fore-runner of the famous Speed Six Bentley and the "Blower" 4.5 litre.

Designed as a result of W. O. Bentley's racing experience before the Great War and incorporating ideas developed during wartime aeronautical research, this nineteen twenties car has twin carburetors, overhead camshaft. cross flow head, 4 valves per cylinder and twin spark ignition - nothing is new.

No wonder Bentley won Le Mans five times ! !

This car was featured in the Bentley video, "Best of British" and in 1997 completed a thousand mile tour of Western France, taking part in the 70th Anniversary Celebrations of the famous 1927 Bentley Le Mans Victory. XW is 76 years old this year and was originally owned by Sir B. C. Baychamps and, in the fifties, by Bomb Command Officers and Members of the R.A.F. Motor Club. It has been driven at Le Mans and Silverstone.

Recently returned from the U.S.A. - a trip of 3,075 miles in temperatures of up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit in California, Nevada and Arizona. XW 1604 is regularly used and is kept ready for the road every day of the year and has been used as wedding transport, for moving furniture and even for taking a load of hedge trimmings to the tip ! !

 
     
     
  Source: Vectis Historic vehicle club
Posted: Oct 04, 2006
 
     
 

"My farther raced a 3 litre Bentley in the late 1950s (XW 1604) whilst in the RAF. It would make his day to see the car again. Is it possible for you to put me in touch with the owner? I have some info about the car and some pictures of it racing."

 
     
     
  Source: Mark Herbert
Posted: Feb 01, 2017
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. 750
Engine No. 745
Registration No. XW 1604
Date of Delivery: Sep 1924
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: SP
   
First Owner: BEAUCHAMP Sir B C
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1065 with a 4-seater Sports; eggshell black; 9/1924.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1065."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 04, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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