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1926 Bentley 6½ Litre    
Original 1926 Numbers
Chassis No. WB2562
Engine No. WB2573
Registration No. YF 9093

  This car - updated
Chassis No. WB2562
Engine No. TB2539
Registration No. YF 9093

(Updated with information from owner Walt Carrel. - February 2011)
 
October 2019
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"Pictures taken on the way home yesterday (7th October, 2019) from a 562 mile weekend from Sammamish, WA to the Maryhill Hillclimb and show near Goldendale, WA. The car won the prewar class racing the hill and the Sam Hill trophy in the car show in very nice weather. The weather turned and we had to deal with my first flat in 22,000 miles. That is all part of the adventure."

 
     
     
  Source: Walt Carrel (Owner)
Posted: Dec 02, 2019
 
     
June 2014
 

This car is presently owned by Walt Carrel.

 
     
     
  Source: Walt Carrel (Owner)
Posted: Jun 24, 2014
 
     
2011
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30th Annual Tulip Rallye (2011), Washington State

 
     
     
  Source: Cindy Rio
Received on: Feb 29, 2012
Posted: Sep 04, 2012
 
     
Christmas 2010
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"I have owned the car "Woolfe" since the Blue train switch was made. It has covered over 12,000 miles in the past 10 years. As you can see it works for its keep collecting our Christmas tree this year.

The current body is the VDP rep body originally fitted to the real Blue train car some time circa 1959. The chassis was converted to a speed configuration after a wreck at the factory in 1928 or 1929 with speed six engine KR 2697 installed. Those speed six parts were transfered to the current engine case TB 2539 after WW II."

 
     
     
  Source: Walt Carrel (Owner since 2001)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011
 
     
August 24, 2010
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Wolf Driving Mount Rainer National Park, August 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Joe Fenstermaker'
Posted: Jul 14, 2015
 
     
2010
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Tulip Rally, 2010

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo posted by user 'psychosquirrel'
Posted: Jun 14, 2010
 
     
2008
 

This car has a very chequered history. Its first body was a Harrison limousine. According to Bentley: The Vintage Years by Michael Hay, it was rebuilt during the 1950s as a Freestone & Webb Fixed Head Coupe (ex. chassis FR 2631). It was then restored for a Swedish collector by R. C. Moss in the mid 1990's, modified to Speed Six specifications and rebodied with a H. J. Mulliner Weymann Saloon (ex BA2592). After Claire Hay's finding evidence that ex Barnato BA2592 was the actual "Blue Train" Speed Six, the saloon body was refitted to that chassis and WB2562 was rebodied as a Vanden Plas LeMans replica (c2004).

 
     
     
  Source: Olle Ljungström
Posted: Mar 21, 2008
 
     
2007
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19th Annual Western Washington All British Field Meet 2007. Photo by Richard Doody.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr
Posted: Jan 22, 2009
 
     
2007
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Photograph was taken during the 56th Annual Rolls-Royce Owners Club Meet in 2007.

 
     
     
  Source: Rolls-Royce Owner's Club Desk Diary, 2008
Posted: Jan 30, 2008
 
     
2007
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  Bentley-RR Run 2007  
     
     
  Source: Picasa, posted by user 'JCM archives'
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
2007
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  Source: Flickr, user PhotoMonkeyDeluxe
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
2007
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  Bellevue, Washington 2007  
     
     
  Source: Richard Doody
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
2006
In USA in 2006 / Owned by a BDC & RROC member
2004
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2004 tour. Snoqualmie Pass in Washington

 
     
     
  Source: Stephen F. Norman
Posted: Jul 14, 2007
 
     
2004
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  2004 Western Washington All British Field Meet, Bellevue, WA  
     
     
  Source: Sandro Menzel
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
2001
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  2001 Western Washington All British Field Meet, Bellevue, WA  
     
     
  Source: Sandro Menzel
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
2000
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  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'moonm'
Posted: Apr 04, 2012
 
     
1998
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Being converted to a Speed Six.

 
     
     
  Source: Article The 6½-litre Bentley — YF 9093 in Halcyon Days: Recollections of Vintage Motoring by Rodney Dale, 1999
Posted: Mar 17, 2008
 
     
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UNDER RESTORATION
   
 
BEFORE RESTORATION
 
 

Speed Six, 'Blue Train' Bentley

We all remember the famous race Woolf Barnato had with the Blue train, the race immortalised into a painting we all have. Having researched the story however Claire Hay discovered that the car, a Gurney Nutting coupe was not finished at the time of the record and had not even been registered for the road.

The only car he had at the time was this wonderful fabric Weyman saloon and in fact the newspaper articles referred to the record car as a Saloon, not as a coupe.

Interesting problems where the immense body work restoration we undertook, no coach builder being prepared to do it for us, the lavish art deco style interior and complicated wood work.

 
     
     
  Source: Richard C. Moss
Posted: Jan 05, 2007
 
     
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  Source: Article The 6½-litre Bentley — YF 9093 in Halcyon Days: Recollections of Vintage Motoring by Rodney Dale, 1999
Posted: Mar 17, 2008
 
     
1947 - 1949
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"Six Tax Discs (period 1947-1949) are for the sale on eBay."

 
     
     
  Source: eBay (Made available by Sue Jones)
Posted: Apr 09, 2019
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. WB2562
Engine No. WB2573
Registration No. YF 9093
Date of Delivery: Sep 1926
Type of Body: Saloon
Coachbuilder: Harrison
Type of Car: ST2
   
First Owner: HENDERSON Sir R
 
     
  More Info: Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Crashed, fitted F&W coupe ex ch. FR 2631. Since rebuilt with H J Mulliner saloon body ex ch. BA 2592, eng TB 2539 ex ch. TB 2535."  
     
     
  Posted: Mar 01, 2007  
     
 
 
 
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