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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1927 Numbers
Chassis No. ST3012
Engine No. ST3008
Registration No. VJ 444

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(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - February 2019)
 
October 1927
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4½ Litre Bentley William Arnold Saloon
1927 Motor Show Autocar 21st Oct 1927
   
 
 

From The Autocar's Show Report dated 21st October 1927.

This must be the car exhibited on the William Arnold stand at the 1927 Olympia Motor Exhibition. The catalogue description is as follows: "24.8 H.P. 4 1/2-Litre 4-Cylinder BENTLEY car. 4-Door 4/5-Seater Weymann Saloon by Exhibitor; single panel windscreen fitted at slightly staggered angle; frameless windows with mechnical lifters; front seats of the bucket pattern and made to slide; wings of a special splayed sporting pattern; exterior covered in black fabric picked out with red; interior upholstered in special soft rose pink hides; one spare wheel; Folberth screen wiper; overall length 15 ft., overall width 5 ft. 10 in."

 
     
     
  Source: Greg Wrapson (Historian - The Alvis Register)
Posted: Mar 01, 2019
 
     
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Chassis No. ST3012
Engine No. ST3008
Registration No. VJ 444
Date of Delivery: Nov 1927
Type of Body: Saloon (Weymann)
Coachbuilder: ARNOLD
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: LANE T L
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Accident 8/31 - rebuilt on new frame."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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