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1929 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1929 Numbers
Chassis No. PL3484
Engine No. PL3484
Registration No. GF 6691

  This car - updated
Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. GF 6691

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - July 2016)
 
March 2019
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Bentley Centenary race to take place at Silverstone Classic 2019.

 
     
     
  Source: AutoClassics
Posted: Mar 19, 2019
 
     
August 2017
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"Picture of the car racing at Silverstone in 2017"

 
     
     
  Source: Simon Laidlaw
Posted: Jul 28, 2018
 
     
August 2016
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1929 4½-Litre Vintage Bentley chassis no. PL3484 at BDC Silverstone 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Robert McLellan
Posted: Jan 01, 2020
 
     
August 2016
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Bentley Drivers Club Silverstone, August 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Aug 20, 2016
 
     
April 23, 2016
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VSCC Spring Start, April 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Ben Gooding'
Posted: Jul 11, 2016
 
     
February 20, 2016
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VSCC Pomeroy Trophy at Silverstone - Saturday 20th February 2016

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Mar 04, 2016
 
     
April 18, 2015
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VSCC "Spring Start" at Silverstone - Saturday 18th April 2015

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jun 26, 2015
 
     
May 5, 2012
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Donington Historic Festival, May 2012

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Adam Singer'
Posted: Oct 31, 2014
 
     
March 23, 2012
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Benjafileds AGM, March 2012

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'Adam Singer'
Posted: Nov 25, 2014
 
     
2012
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"1929 4½ litre Le Mans Bentley. Originally fitted with a saloon Vanden Plas body and exhibited at Olympia show in July 1929. Still regularly raced at classic car races throughout the UK.

Pictured here from the classics gathered together to commemorate the Ards TT, first held in 1928. The race was the culmination of much thought and enthusiasm by two men. One was the legendary Harry Ferguson and the other was Wallace McLeod. Wallace was head of the motor engineering school at the Belfast Tech. The men were helped in their dream by the fact that (unlike the rest of the British Isles) the law in Ulster enabled roads to be closed off for motor racing (as they still are). In 1927 the two men visited a race at Brooklands and persuaded some of the drivers that, if they could find a suitable Ulster road circuit, then they would participate. The venue was found and the six hour race was organised under the auspices of the Royal Automobile Club.

The circuit was in the form of a triangle 13.7 miles in total. The race started at the pits on the Newtownards Road Dundonald, and there still is a little commemorative building at that spot to mark the location. The cars then set off towards Newtownards via Quarry Corner then up and over Bradshaw’s Brae and into Conway Square, Newtownards. There are still marks on the masonry made by the cars as they clipped the corner into the square, now a pedestrian precinct.

The eventual winner of the first race in 1928 was Kaye Don’s Lea Francis.

At its peak the Ards TT attracted over a half a million spectators."

 
     
     
  Source: Stephen Barry on RedBubble
Posted: Aug 13, 2012
 
     
2011
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Donington Historic Festival, 2011

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'Chris McEvoy'
Posted: Mar 17, 2015
 
     
August 2009
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Silverstone, August 2009

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Dirk Glassly'
Posted: Apr 16, 2012
 
     
July 2009
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Photographs taken on July 25, 2009 at the Sliverstone Classic - Pre-war Sportscars.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, user 'Major_Clanger'
Posted: Oct 18, 2010
 
     
2008
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Oulton Park 2008
Photo by Banditman

UVCC TT Memorial Unveiling 2008

BDC 2008
 
 

 

 
     
     
  Source: Ephotozine, Photobucket, posted by user 'ferndalemotorsport' and Picasa, posted by user 'Bob'
Posted: Apr 16, 2012
 
     
July 2008
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Silverstone Classic 2008.

 
     
     
  Source: Benjafield's Racing Club
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
April 2008
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Photo by Dirk Glassly

Photo by Dirk Glassly
 
 

VSCC Silverstone 2008.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr & Vintage Racing U.K.
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
2007
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Oulton Gold Cup 2007.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photos by users 'dvdbramhall' & 'jh0604'
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
2007
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Photograph was taken at Oulton Park Race Meeting in 2007.

 
     
     
  Source: Unknown
Posted: Feb 07, 2008
 
     
2007
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  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'Blammer100'
Posted: Jan 22, 2009
 
     
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  Source: Flickr
Posted: Jan 20, 2009
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
May 2005
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Vintage Sports Car Club races, May 2005.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'TonyH'
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
2005
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Tower of London 2005.

 
     
     
  Source: Benjafield's Racing Club
Posted: Mar 04, 2009
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. PL3484
Engine No. PL3484
Registration No. GF 6691
Date of Delivery: Aug 1929
Type of Body: Saloon
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: THORN J
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1568 with a Saloon, Olympia Show; 7/1929.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1568. Boat tail body by Coton (1957) - eng KM3099 ex KM3098. Since rebuilt as Le Mans rep, body by Robinson/Cranfield."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 05, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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