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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1927 Numbers
Chassis No. SL3053
Engine No. SL3055
Registration No. YU 2683

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Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. YU 2683

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with updates. - August 2016)
 
24th July 2016
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Vintage Sports Car Club race meeting at Cadwell Park, July 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Aug 04, 2016
 
     
June 7, 2015
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VSCC Cadwell Park - Sunday 7th June 2015

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jun 22, 2015
 
     
December 2013
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"Vintage Bentley parked outside 'Ye Olde Bell Inn' at Barnby Moor."

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Adrian'
Posted: Dec 10, 2015
 
     
2007
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Scampton UK 2007. Photograph by Richard Croft.

 
     
     
  Source: Geograph, UK
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Jun 12, 2009
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
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Chassis No. SL3053
Engine No. SL3055
Registration No. YU 2683
Date of Delivery: Nov 1927
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: KRUSE Capt
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1419 with a 4-seater Sports; Weymann black fabric / black; 10/1927.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1416. Crashed 1931 - rebuilt on new frame - no. given as TX 3246. Spawned 2 cars - (1) ch. TX 3246. Haddow 4 seater eng NT 3131 ex NT 3131. (2) ch. SL 3053 (frame also numbered XL 3113) eng UK 3289 ex UK 3289 rebuilt by Excel, Vanden Plas 4 seater."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 05, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439
Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147
Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651
Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg for his Chassis No. KL3590
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