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1924 Bentley 3 Litre    
Original 1924 Numbers
Chassis No. 604
Engine No. 614
Registration No. PX 247

  This car - updated
Chassis No. 604
Engine No. -
Registration No. PX 247

(Updated with information from Robert Glover Ltd. - March 2017)
 
March 2017
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Found on Robert Glover Ltd. website on March 22, 2017

1924 Bentley 3/4½-Litre Speed Model Tourer
Chassis No. 604
Registration No. PX 247

The Bentley 3-Litre Tourer by Vanden Plas is surely one of the prettiest of all the vintage sports touring designs. Add the power of the 4½ – Litre unit and the result is perhaps the ultimate all round vintage sports car. As such the Bentley 3/41/2-Litre remains one of the most popular and sought after of all vintage cars.

The example offered for sale here, chassis no. 604, was completed in June 1924 of the shorter 9ft9” wheelbase (speed model) chassis. Factory records indicate that it was fitted with engine no. 614 and coachwork by Storey and Co. The original owner is noted as a H. J. Shaw of Haslemere, Surrey. In late 1926 the car was purchased by a D. Briggs of Normanton, Yorkshire who kept the car until 1939 when it was purchased by E. Body of Bedfordshire. The Bentley Driver’s Club has the complete ownership history of chassis no. 604 between 1950 and the present day. Their records also show that the original body was removed quite early on and that by the 1950s chassis no. 604 was fitted with a crude two-seater body. By 1976 the car had been fitted with replica Vanden Plas four-seat touring coachwork. At that stage retained the original engine, no. 614. By the 1990s ‘604’ had been fitted with a 41/2-Litre engine.

The current owner, a vintage Bentley collector, acquired ‘604’ last year. The 41/2-Litre engine fitted to ‘604’ was the correct engine from his original 41/2-Litre Vanden Plas Tourer and this was removed and re-fitted to said 4½-Litre Tourer. The 41/2-Litre unit from ‘604’ has been replaced with another 41/2-Litre engine. Numbered D.M.K.1, the engine is of the desirable late heavy crank type and was built up by Duncan McKenzie.

A genuine short chassis speed model and fitted with the desirable late heavy crank 41/2-Litre engine, this handsome vintage Bentley would be ideal for the ever popular endurance rally events such as the Flying Scotsman and RAC 1000 mile trail and would also be suitable for a plethora of VSCC and BDC organized events.

This car is for sale as of March 22, 2017.

 
     
     
  Source: Robert Glover Ltd.
Posted: Mar 22, 2017
 
     
June 21, 2015
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Beamish Reliability Run, June 2015

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'scotchjohnnie'
Posted: Jul 10, 2015
 
     
June 2014
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Beamish Reliability Run, June 2014

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Brian Smith'
Posted: Aug 30, 2014
 
     
July 18, 2010
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  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Peter Barker'
Posted: May 14, 2015
 
     
2008
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Wales 2008.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'traed mawr'
Posted: Jan 30, 2009
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
1992
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"Photograph was taken at the Rushden Steam Fair 1992."

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Goochie'
Posted: Jul 2, 2016
 
     
1930s
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  Source: Scriptor Senex
Posted: Mar 02, 2013
 
     
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"I have an old black and white negative of car PX 247 as snapped on a box browny. It is likely that my father took this when the other car(s) seen in the photo were current and I guess somewhere in Gloucestershire. Felt I should share it."

 
     
     
  Source: Steve Walkley
Posted: Feb 20, 2015
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. 604
Engine No. 614
Registration No. PX 247
Date of Delivery: May 1924
Type of Body: No info
Coachbuilder: STOREY
Type of Car: SP
   
First Owner: SHAW H T
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "'6/26 Gasolex water carburettor fitted'. Vanden Plas 4 seater by Meynell & Phillips. Eng was UK3284 ex ch. UK3286, now ST3004 ex ch. ST3004 - 614 in ch. 34."  
     
     
  Posted: Sep 20, 2006  
     
 
 
 
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