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1929 Bentley 6½ Litre    
Original 1928 Numbers
Chassis No. WT2255
Engine No. WT2260
Registration No. (Not available)
  This car - updated
Chassis No. WT2255
Engine No. WT2260
Registration No. UV 4539
(Updated with information from owner Nigel Atherstone. - August 2018)
 
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  Source: Paul Shawcross
Posted: Mar 05, 2020		  
     
September 2019
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1929 Bentley 6½-Litre Vanden Plas (Originally a Gurney Nutting Weymann saloon)
Kop Hill Climb, September 2019

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: May 13, 2020		  
     
September 2019
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Bentley Speed Six 6.5L 1928
Kop Hill Climb, September 2019

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'rac819'
Posted: Oct 28, 2019		  
     
January 6, 2019
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1929 Bentley 6½-Litre Vanden Plas (Originally a Gurney Nutting Weymann saloon)
Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble - 6th January 2019

  
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jan 14, 2019		  
     
August 2018
 

This car is presently owned by Nigel Atherstone.
Chassis No: WT2255 ~ Engine No: WT2260 ~ Registration No: UV 4539

  
     
     
  Source: Nigel Atherstone (Owner)
Posted: Aug 03, 2018		  
     
August 2016
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BDC Silverstone, August 2016

  
     
     
  Source: Robert McLellan
Posted: Jan 01, 2020		  
     
2001
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At Port Elizabeth, 2001 International Bentley Tour of South Africa

  
     
     
  Source: Russell Browne
Posted: May 06, 2013		  
     
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Car in the photographs bears
Reg. No. UV 4539 on the number plate.		  
 
 

1928 Bentley 6½-litre (Rebuilt to Speed Six specifications with replica Vanden Plas body)
Chassis no: WT2255

First owner: Delivered to Mr. E. O'Brien in October 1928

  
     
     
  Source: Classic Rolls, South Africa
Posted: Dec 21, 2010		  
     
1984
 

This car was purchased by Nigel Atherstone in 1984.

  
     
     
  Source: Nigel Atherstone (Owner)
Posted: Aug 03, 2018		  
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. WT2255
Engine No. WT2260
Registration No. (Not available)
Date of Delivery: Oct 1928
Type of Body: Saloon (Weymann)
Coachbuilder: Gurney Nutting
Type of Car: ST3
   
First Owner: O'Brien
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "'Chrome rad and fitting, Cambridge thermometer,' parts extant in South Africa?"  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439
Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147
Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651
Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg for his Chassis No. KL3590
Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207
Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165
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