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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1928 Numbers
Chassis No. XL3107
Engine No. XL3107
Registration No. UC 6636

  This car - updated
Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. UC 6636

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - March 2019)
 
August 2011
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Frinton-on-Sea UK, August 2011

 
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Maria Fowler'
Posted: Jun 08, 2013
 
     
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Lavenham, UK

 
     
     
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Updated: Aug 25, 2010
Posted: Jul 16, 2010
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
1960s
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UC 6636 also known as MLP 821

1960
 
 

"I worked with Mr. R. J. Buttfield in East Dulwich from about 1962 to 1968. He owned this car when it was registered MLP 821. The car was still owned by Ronald Buttfield when he died in 1973. He was unmarried. I think it was passed to a relative. I regularly worked on it and drove it. I feel very privileged to have driven this wonderful car.

It was not particularly easy to drive and required techniques unheard of today, especially with gear changing. Stopping from high speed required careful planning! My last drive was at a TEAC (Thames Estuary Auto Club) event in Basildon in the late 1960s or early 70s. Buttfield died in 1973 and I lost touch with the car.

It looks very different in the photos from 2011. I knew it was lowered in its past. The top of the bonnet was very close to the cylinder head then! I would not recognise it apart from your mention of its prior registration number, MLP 821. I’m biased but I think it looked better with the lower and shorter body, but it was, of course, less original.

Buttfield also owned a 1929 Jowett tourer DF 7968 which is still on the road. I learnt to drive on this car. I also lost touch with the Jowett when he died."

 
     
  Source: Ken Horwood
Posted: Mar 20, 2019
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. XL3107
Engine No. XL3107
Registration No. UC 6636
Date of Delivery: Mar 1928
Type of Body: Saloon (Weymann)
Coachbuilder: ALBANY
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: SHAYLOR G
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "D/7011. Cut and lowered 1951 2/4 seater reg MLP 821. In Germany."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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