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Bentley racing car "Mother Gun", built 1927, 4.5 L engine. 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 ...
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 .
It is a limited (12 units) version of 1930's Bentley Blower, built from the design drawings and tooling jigs used for the original four Blowers built and raced by Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin in the late 1920s, which included Bentley's own Team Car (Chassis HB 3403, engine SM 3902, registration UU 5872 – Team Car #2).
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 6.6L S6 D: 137 [B] 174 2: 5.0: 9: Bentley Motors Ltd: Glen Kidston Jack Dunfee: 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 ...
The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 [5] as a more sporting version of the Bentley 6½ Litre. [12] With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, [ 5 ] [ 8 ] [ 11 ] a high-performance camshaft, [ 14 ] and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced 180 hp (130 kW) at 3500 rpm.
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 Bentley Mark V was Rolls-Royce's second Bentley model. Intended for announcement at the Earl's Court Motor Show set down for late October 1939 [ 1 ] it had much in common with its predecessor . War was declared on 3 September 1939 and a few days later Bentley announced it had ceased production of civilian items.