The Benjafield Racing Club 2015 Goodwood Sprint

"I am the owner of the Bentley 4½-litre Chassis No. XT3636 Reg No. GO 1789."

Bentley Owners Day Brooklands

Brooklands 2008.

Roger and Nora Felton's 4½ Litre is shown in the photograph above. Nora poses with the car at Port Erin in the Isle of Man in July 2007 during a Bentley Drivers Club Southeastern Region tour.

Brooklands Museum Bentley Gathering, March 2006

Photographs were taken during Bentley Drivers Club Brooklands Driving Tests in 2005.

Car resurfaced in the U.K. at the Bonham's Goodwood Revival Sale in 2003 when it was bought by Stanley Mann, who recovered the original registration, and from whom the present owner purchased it.

Car was back in Sweden in the private collection of Karl Ragnar Astrom. At around this time we believe that it was brought back to the U.K., where the original body was removed, probably by Stanley Mann, who converted the car to a "LeMans Replicar" with a body by H & H. (The fate of the original body is unknown at this time.)

Car was owned by Ulf Smith from 1984 to 1985.

The car was owned by Olle Ljungström from 1975 to 1984.

1975 saw the car in Sweden where it was registered as JHP 722 under the ownership of Olle Ljungström.

In January 1974 Chassis No. XT3636 was again advertised for sale in "Motor Sport", this time by Mark Willis.

After being advertised for sale by Character Cars in the September 1952 issue of "Motor Sport" magazine, it was in the collection of Bill & Ann Klein.

Information received on Oct 31, 2011:

"According to family story sold for 10 pounds after the War. Moved between London, Bristol and Looe, Cornwall."

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"I have attached two old family photographs from the late 1930’s of our Bentley GO 1789. It was owned by my grandmother, Minnie Mason, later Poynter, probably from around 1936-1948. One photo is most likely taken in Looe Cornwall, where my grandmother lived some of the time, the other outside her home in Southwick Street, London. The car was garaged over the war in Golders Green, London, then sold after the war, we think around 1948 but it could have been later. According to family lore, the sixpence a week garage rental was no longer affordable as the family business in Bristol was bombed in the war along with the house in Southwick Street and the family dispersed. I had always believed the car was sold by my great aunt for 10 pounds for scrap, until I recently Googled the registration number and saw the wonderful photos and history. Hopefully these photos will get to the current owners, please feel free to pass along my contact email to them.

One other point of interest, I notice the picture in the 1952 Wimbledon advert shows different, spoked wheels, from my photos, which are solid. My mother tells me she remembers the car was garaged up on bricks, so perhaps somehow the original wheels got separated."