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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1927 Numbers
Chassis No. SL3056
Engine No. SL3052
Registration No. YT 159

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Chassis No. -
Engine No. -
Registration No. YT 159

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with updates. - August 2016)
 
September 2019
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Goodwood Revival, September 2019

 
     
     
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Posted: Dec 23, 2019
 
     
August 24, 2019
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1927 Bentley 4½-Litre
V.S.C.C. 85th Anniversary/Formula Vintage Round V, August 2019
Brands Hatch, Fawkham, Kent

 
     
     
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Posted: Jul 21, 2020
 
     
August 2017
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"Picture of the car racing at Silverstone in 2017"

 
     
     
  Source: Simon Laidlaw
Posted: Jul 28, 2018
 
     
August 2016
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SL3056 at BDC Silverstone, August 2016

 
     
     
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Posted: Jun 15, 2018
 
     
August 2016
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Bentley Drivers Club Silverstone, August 2016

 
     
     
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Posted: Aug 27, 2016
 
     
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Chassis No. SL3056
Engine No. SL3052
Registration No. YT 159
Date of Delivery: Nov 1927
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: GOUT A
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1424 with a Sports 4-seater; Weymann black / lake / black; 10/1927.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1424. Believed sold to a farmer before the war, crashed and written off. Eng SL 3052 now in ch. HT 1648."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 05, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photograph received from Simon Hunt for Chassis No. RL3439
Sep 30, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Dick Clay for Chassis No. 147
Sep 29, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Ernst Jan Krudop for his Chassis No. AX1651
Sep 28, 2020 - Info and photographs received from Lars Hedborg for his Chassis No. KL3590
Sep 25, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. XV 3207
Sep 24, 2020 - Info and photograph added for Registration No. YM 7165
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