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The stand at the 1926 motor show had just Weymann designs, a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-litre Bentley in black above white and a beautiful 37 hp Hispano-Suiza in black above primrose. Bentley 4½ Litre 1928 The car which built their reputation for prominent customers was built in 1928 for the style-setter of the time.
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 .
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.
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.
John Polwhele Blatchley (1 July 1913 – 16 February 2008) was a London-born car designer known for his work with J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited and Rolls-Royce Limited.He began his career as designer with Gurney Nutting in 1935, moving up to Chief Designer before leaving in 1940 to join Rolls-Royce.
Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a new Bentley Speed Six streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupe" by Gurney Nutting. [2] Barnato named it the "Blue Train Special" in memory of his race, and it too became commonly referred to as the Blue Train Bentley . [ 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 .
[1] The car was built by Vintage Sports-Car Club member and Napier-Bentley owner Chris Williams, [2] and debuted at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in July 2010. The Packard-Bentley is based on a 1930 Bentley 8-litre chassis, highly modified. The car also has 24 exhaust pipes, reflecting its engine's twin-port design.