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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.
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.
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 .
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.
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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 ...