This car belonged to J.B.H.Walker, of Bury, Lancashire between 1963 and 1984.

Jun 10, 2012
"This car used to belong to my late uncle, who bought it in 1963, and sold it in 1984. During the time he owned it, the car was bought fitted with a 2 door coupe body (which had been modified at the rear). My uncle late made and fitted a 4 seater VDP replica body, to a drawing from Anthony F. Robinson & Partner, Gerards Cross.

I have several photographs of the car from when my uncle owned the car, and various paperwork, including a letter from Park Ward confirming the body was original..."

Jun 20, 2012
Further to my message of last week, I have now found some photographs of the 1924 Blue Label long chassis 3 litre Bentley, Reg. No. XU2335, chassis no 705, Engine No 708, which used to belong to my late uncle, J.B.H.Walker, of Bury, Lancashire between 1963 and 1984.

It was bought as a ‘non runner’ in 1963, looking generally as per the attached photograph XU2335 1963 (taken by the previous owner in the early 1960s before my uncle purchased it) with what started off as a Park Ward Coupe body. He suspected that the back end of the body was modified at some stage prior to the photograph being taken, to include rear seats and a lockable ‘boot’ door. My uncle wrote to Park Ward to check if they had any records of the original bodywork, and received a letter from them (above).

After some restoration, the car took part in several Veteran and Vintage Car Runs from Manchester to Blackpool. The photos above show the car during the 2nd Run held on Sunday 19th April 1964.

Around 1968, my uncle replaced this body with a 4 seat VDP style tourer body which he built from plans supplied by Anthony F Robinson & Partner, Gerrards Cross. The (1968) photo above shows this body prior to a hood being fitted. At this time, he found that the woodwork for the rear section of the Park Ward body had been made from orange boxes!! Thus proving that there was definitely some modification at some stage.

I do have some photo slides somewhere showing the car in its various forms. I will try and search these out, and forward copies to you as soon as I can.

As far as I know, there is not much more documentation about the car, but if you have any queries, then please email me and I will try to answer as best I can.