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1928 Bentley 4½ Litre    
Original 1927 Numbers
Chassis No. RN3027
Engine No. RN3027
Registration No. YU 4362

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Chassis No.
Engine No.
Registration No. YU 4362

(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - May 2016)
 
August 2018
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1927 Bentley 4½-Litre Vanden Plas
Grimsthorpe Speed Trials - Sunday 26th August 2018

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: May 06, 2020
 
     
April 2016
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VSCC Silverstone, April 2016

 
     
     
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Posted: May 14, 2016
 
     
June 7, 2015
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VSCC Cadwell Park - Sunday 7th June 2015

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jun 22, 2015
 
     
April 18, 2015
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VSCC "Spring Start" at Silverstone - Saturday 18th April 2015

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'Roy Cousins'
Posted: Jun 27, 2015
 
     
August 6, 2014
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VSCC 80th Acorn Rally, August 2014

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'David Grounds'
Posted: Nov 04, 2014
 
     
April 2014
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VSCC Spring Start GP Itala Trophy Race Meeting, April 2014

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, posted by user 'peezedgee'
Posted: Dec 27, 2014
 
     
September 2012
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Photograph taken in Sept 2012 at Snetterton, England.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo by user 'Cole Trickle'
Posted: Nov 14, 2012
 
     
2008
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VSCC Mallory Park 2008.

 
     
     
  Source: Flickr, photo by user 'KLV&ADS'
Posted: Jan 29, 2009
 
     
EARLIEST RECORD OF HISTORICAL FACTS & INFORMATION
 
Chassis No. RN3027
Engine No. RN3027
Registration No. YU 4362
Date of Delivery: Nov 1927
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: No info
   
First Owner: H HARRIS (TEXTILES) LTD
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1432 with a Sports 4-seater, 3-door; Weymann fabric /black; 11/1927.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1432. "New crankcase 1929" - RN 3073."
 
     
     
  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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