This car is presently owned by David Morris.

This car is presently owned by David Morris. It was purchased by him in 1997.

"Engine has AD3660 and Crankcase from FX3603 which is a similar heavy Crankshaft to original spec. The car has proved to be strong and reliable and I have driven 45000 miles or so with very minor faults."

Weston Park Festival of Transport April 2009

BDC Concours, 2007

The above photograph would be from 2003, and is how the car looks even today (January 2008).

This car was purchased by David Morris in 1997.

The Property of THE EARL CAWDOR.
1930 4½-LITRE BENTLEY REPLICA Tourer. Chassis No. AD 3659. Engine No. AD 3660. UK Reg. No. GT 1048

'...I don't know how many horses the new engine develops, but I fancy it is well over the three figures... this car can be 'punka-te-punkaed' round the West End in top gear at a veritable crawl. That combination of dash and docility — as unusual as it is desirable — seems always to characterise Bentley design, and it puts the car almost in a class by itself...' The Tatler, London, 1928.

This striking example of perhaps the best-known of all Cricklewood Bentley models has been the property of the Earl Cawdor for the past twenty years, since he purchased it from H. R. Owen, Berkeley Street, London, in 1969.

The car, chassis number AD 3659 was first completed in June 1930 carrying a Martin Walter saloon body. It went to Jack Olding & Co. Ltd. of 8-10 North Audley Street, London W1 who first taxed it for road use on September 28, 1931, but quickly sold it to its first true owner, Mr. Edward Sinott Coltman of 243 Baring Road, Grove Park, London SE12. In 1936 it passed from him to Thomas John Moffatt of Leicester, and in 1939 via Brayshaw & Carr Ltd. of Leicester to J. H. Heward of Evington in the same county.

Two years later it became the property of A. H. Smith of Bushby before apparently being requisitioned by the Secretary of State, Home Office, Wl, director of supply and transport.

Its original buff logbook document has survived, but it was replaced by a new-issue buff book in 1947 when the car was owned by J. H. Cobb of Guildford, Surrey. It subsequently passed to Gwendoline Bridger of Godalming, Surrey, in 1956 and the logbook is endorsed on November 10, 1959, noting the change of body type to tourer and colour to maroon.

Mr. R. G. Felton of Ealing, London W5, then acquired GT 1048 in June 1967 after which it passed through the hands of the Viscount Emlyn of Broad Oak, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to its present owner.

The 4½-litre Bentley series was introduced to compensate for the performance shortcomings of the original 3-litre type — which too many customers had fitted with unsuitably heavy bodies — without running to the complexity and expense of the 6½-litre 'Silent Six' models.

AD3659 had two-tone body colour in 1975 and looked like this.

Photographs of AD3659 with its original body. The original body was taken off in 1967 and the new body fitted during 1968.