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The Bentley 8 Litre was a large inline 6-cylinder super-luxury car made in various configurations by Bentley Motors Limited at Cricklewood, London. Announced 15 September 1930, it was also the last completely new model by Bentley before the company's financial collapse and forced sale to Rolls-Royce Limited .
Bentley: 8 Litre Gurney Nutting Sports Tourer YF5011 Michael Kadoorie: 2020 None 2021 [16] 1938: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Autobahn Kurier 408336 Arturo & Deborah Keller 2022 [17] 1932 Duesenberg Model J Figoni Sports Torpedo 2509 Lee R. Anderson Sr. 2023 [18] 1937: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Special Roadster 154075 [19] Jim Patterson Patterson Collection ...
Bentley Speed Six 1930 Weymann fixed head coupé Daimler Double-Six 1932 close-coupled 4-door sports saloon for Anna Neagle. J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited was an English firm of bespoke coachbuilders specialising in sporting bodies founded in 1918 as a new enterprise by a Croydon firm of builders and joiners of the same name.
Research efforts by Bruce and Jolene McCaw of Medina, Washington, who bought the Gurney Nutting-built "Blue Train Special", have further exposed and widely publicised the mistake. The original H. J. Mulliner Blue Train Bentley bodywork was also reconstructed, and both cars have been fully restored.
conventional non-Weymann coachwork frame (Volvo ÖV 4) Gurney Nutting Weymann body Bentley 4½-litre May 1928. The Weymann system comprises an ultra-light wood framework with special metal joints so that timber does not touch timber. Small metal panels are inserted between the fabric and the framework to make rounded external corners.
20/25 limousine by Gurney Nutting After the First World War, Rolls-Royce successfully avoided attempts to encourage British car manufacturers to merge. Faced with falling sales of the 40/50 Silver Ghost in short-lived but deep postwar slumps Rolls-Royce introduced the smaller, affordable Twenty in 1922, effectively ending the one-model policy ...
Bentley 8 Litre 4-door sports saloon. 1921–1929 3-litre; 1926–1930 4½-litre & "Blower Bentley" 1926–1930 6½-litre; 1928–1930 6½-litre Speed Six; 1930–1931 8-litre; 1931 4-litre; The original model was the three-litre, but as customers put heavier bodies on the chassis, a larger 4½-litre model followed.
The Bentley Boys were a group of wealthy British motorists who drove Bentley sports cars to victory in the 1920s and kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive. In 1925, as the marque floundered, Bentley Boy Woolf Barnato bought the company, leading to the creation of the famous supercharged Bentley Blower car.