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Bentley 4½ Litre No. 10 took third at the 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans. Between 1927 and 1931 the Bentley 4½ Litre competed in several competitions, primarily the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first was the Old Mother Gun at the 1927 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven as a prototype before production. [27] Favored to win, it instead crashed and did not finish.
Bentley adhered strictly to his own assertion that increasing displacement is always preferable to forced induction: [5] To supercharge a Bentley engine was to pervert its design and corrupt its performance. However, in the winter of 1926/7, chassis FR5189, a 3-litre car, was the first car fitted with a supercharger at the factory.
Bentley 4½ Litre: Bentley 4.4L S4 D: 135 167 3 5.0 10 Bentley Motors Ltd Dr Dudley Benjafield Baron André d'Erlanger Bentley 4½ Litre: Bentley 4.4L S4 D: 135 [B] 159 4 5.0 8 Bentley Motors Ltd Frank Clement Jean Chassagne: Bentley 4½ Litre: Bentley 4.4L S4 D: 135 157 5 8.0 5 Automobiles Elite Paris Guy Bouriat Philippe de Rothschild: Stutz ...
3½-litre coupé de ville by Thrupp & Maberly 1934. The Bentley 3½ Litre (later enlarged to 4¼ Litre) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1933 to 1939. It was presented to the public in September 1933, shortly after the death of Henry Royce, and was the first new Bentley model following Rolls-Royce's acquisition of the Bentley brand in 1931.
Bentley 4½ Litre: Bentley 4.4L S4 D: 132 35 Accident (6 hr) DNF 3.0 2 Bentley Motors Limited Baron André d'Erlanger George Duller Bentley 3 Litre Speed Bentley 3.0 S4 D: 129 34 Accident (6 hr) DNF 2.0 12 Automobiles Th. Schneider SA Jacques Chanterelle René Schiltz Th. Schneider 25 SP 'Le Mans' Th. Schneider 1954cc S4 D: 117 34 Withdrawn (7 ...
The 4-litre chassis was conceived and built in a failed attempt to restore Bentley to a good financial state. Announced 15 May 1931, [ 6 ] it used a modified 4-litre Ricardo IOE engine in a shortened 8 Litre chassis at two-thirds of the price of the 8 Litre in an attempt to compete with the Rolls-Royce 20/25 .
They quickly decided to create a new Bentley using the 20/25 engine with some adaptations, and a chassis that had been developed for a 2¾ litre Rolls-Royce that had been intended as an economy version of the 20/25 but had been cancelled. This formed the basis of the first "Derby Bentley" – the Bentley 3½ litre. The model was very successful ...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is an automotive museum located at 6825 Norwitch Drive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] The museum's collection consists of approximately 75 racing sports cars and has been assembled over more than 50 years by Frederick A. Simeone, a retired neurosurgeon and native of Philadelphia.