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Bentley Blower No.1 is a racing car developed from the Bentley 4½ Litre by Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin to win the Le Mans twenty-four-hour race. The car was developed into its current form for racing at Brooklands. In June 2012, the car was sold by Bonhams for £5,042,000 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. [1]
The Bentley 4½ Litre is a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. [1] Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more powerful car by increasing its engine displacement to 4.4 litres (270 cubic inches). A racing variant was known as the Blower Bentley.
The 242 bhp "blower Bentley" was born. Tim Birkin racing Bentley Blower No.1 at Brooklands in 1929. The first car, a stripped down Brooklands racer known as Bentley Blower No.1, first appeared at the Essex six-hour race at Brooklands on 29 June 1929. However, the car initially proved to be very unreliable.
Amherst Villiers. Amherst Villiers (1900–1991) was an English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter. He designed a land speed record-breaking car for Malcolm Campbell, and developed the supercharged "Blower Bentley", driven by Henry Birkin and (in fiction) by James Bond.
Bentley sales continued to increase, and in 2005 8,627 were sold worldwide, 3,654 in the United States. In 2007, the 10,000 cars-per-year threshold was broken for the first time with sales of 10,014. For 2007, a record profit of €155 million was also announced. [41] Bentley reported a sale of about 7,600 units in 2008. [42]
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Pages in category "Bentley racing cars" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bentley Blower No.1; S. Bentley ...
If you missed out on the 12-unit run of $2.1 million Blower continuation cars, the Blower Junior is your chance to get an 85 percent scale replica for a fraction of the price. Bentley Downsizes ...
Improved over the close-season, a team of three “Blower Bentleys” arrived, managed by former Bentley-driver and Lagonda team-manager Bertie Kensington-Moir. [6] Birkin renewed his 1928 Le Mans partnership with Jean Chassagne , while race-winner Dudley Benjafield drove with former Alfa Romeo test-driver (and now British resident) Giulio ...