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Original 1924 Numbers
Chassis No. 750
Engine No. 745
Registration No. XW 1604
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This car - updated
Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. XW 1604
(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with updates. - December 2016) |
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| 2006 |
| In
England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member |
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| OWNERSHIP
HISTORY |
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| 1925-1926 |
Sir Brograve Campbell
Beauchamp |
| 1926-1927 |
C.A.McLeod |
| 1927-1937 |
Captain Macardle |
| 1937-1948 |
E. Dudley |
| 1948-1950 |
Oliver Wells |
| 1950-1957 |
Sq. Ldr. Charles
Blundell Owen |
| 1957-1968 |
John Jefferson Mitchell |
| 1968-1990 |
Raymund Edwin Grant/Eddy
Keep who rebuilt the car from
a rolling chassis |
| 1990-1995 |
Peter Norfolk |
| 1995-1996 |
Richard Walter
Freestone |
| 1996-2003 |
Peter David Keevil |
| 2004-2006 |
Kurt Furger who
took the car to France, Switzerland
and New Zealand |
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Source:
Kurt Furger
Posted: Apr 18, 2008 |
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Chassis no. 750.
A very correct matching numbers car,
with original VdP all alloy body.
Fold flat screen plus aero screens.
Full weather equipment. Fully sorted
and in superb condition. Recently
completed B.D.C. New Zealand Rally. |
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Source:
Old English Classics
Posted: Nov 13, 2006 |
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Fitted with its original
Van Den Plas 4-seater "Bathtub"
Tourer Body, this car represents the
archetypal vintage racing Bentley,
fore-runner of the famous Speed Six
Bentley and the "Blower"
4.5 litre.
Designed as a result of W. O. Bentley's
racing experience before the Great
War and incorporating ideas developed
during wartime aeronautical research,
this nineteen twenties car has twin
carburetors, overhead camshaft. cross
flow head, 4 valves per cylinder and
twin spark ignition - nothing is new.
No wonder Bentley won Le Mans five
times ! !
This car was featured in the Bentley
video, "Best of British"
and in 1997 completed a thousand mile
tour of Western France, taking part
in the 70th Anniversary Celebrations
of the famous 1927 Bentley Le Mans
Victory. XW is 76 years old this year
and was originally owned by Sir B.
C. Baychamps and, in the fifties,
by Bomb Command Officers and Members
of the R.A.F. Motor Club. It has been
driven at Le Mans and Silverstone.
Recently returned from the U.S.A.
- a trip of 3,075 miles in temperatures
of up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit in
California, Nevada and Arizona. XW
1604 is regularly used and is kept
ready for the road every day of the
year and has been used as wedding
transport, for moving furniture and
even for taking a load of hedge trimmings
to the tip ! ! |
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Source:
Vectis Historic vehicle club
Posted: Oct 04, 2006 |
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"My farther raced a 3 litre Bentley in the late 1950s (XW 1604) whilst in the RAF.
It would make his day to see the car again. Is it possible for you
to put me in touch with the owner? I have some info about the car and some pictures of it racing." |
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Source: Mark Herbert
Posted: Feb 01, 2017 |
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| EARLIEST
RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION |
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| Chassis No. |
750 |
| Engine No. |
745 |
| Registration
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XW 1604 |
| Date of Delivery: |
Sep 1924 |
| Type of Body: |
4-seater |
| Coachbuilder: |
Vanden Plas |
| Type of Car: |
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BEAUCHAMP Sir B
C |
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More Info:
According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder
records, this car was originally fitted
with Body No. 1065 with a 4-seater Sports;
eggshell black; 9/1924.
Michael Hay, in his book Bentley:
The Vintage Years, 1997, states:
"Vanden Plas body no. 1065." |
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Updated: Jul 04, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439 |
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147 |
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Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651 |
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Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg
for his Chassis No. KL3590 |
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Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207 |
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Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165 |
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