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1928 Bentley 3 Litre    
Original 1928 Numbers
Chassis No. BL1602
Engine No. BL1603
Registration No. YV 14

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(Current owner / former owners, please come forward with further updates. - October 2017)
 
 

"My father, Noel Roscoe owned this car for over 20 years. He remembers the car when he was young when a family friend, Teddy Comeford then owned it. Many years later he saw the car for sale and purchased it. For many years it had been abroad in Dar-es-salaam. When he purchased it he drove it over to Teddy's house to show him. Teddy by then was very old, but it did not stop him driving it as if it was yesterday. I do have pictures of the car. It was a beautiful car and wished I owned it. I would love to see the car again."

 
     
     
  Source: Clare Roscoe (daughter of former owner, Noel Roscoe)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011
 
     
2006
In England in 2006 / Owned by a BDC member
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"This 3-litre Bentley, owned by my friend Brian Ashworth, is a genuine Red Label short chassis model" writes A.F. Rivers Fletcher.

"Brian Ashworth is 6ft. 3in. tall and has only one leg, his right limb being an aluminium alloy affair which won't bend of its own accord. On this account the central throttle pedal had to be scrapped in favour of the now more usual position to the right of the brake pedal. Quite apart from this necessity for the change of pedal arrangement to suit the disabled owner, I find it a very real improvement, the present position being so general in these days that the old arrangement would sometimes leave one guessing which way to go for the brake."

The car was first registered in March 1928; the previous owner Bernard Clason was believed to have been the car's first owner.

 
     
     
  Source: From article That 3-Litre Again, published in Autocar, February 18, 1944
Posted: Mar 08, 2008
 
     
1968 - 1990
 

This car was owned by Noel Roscoe from 1968 to 1990.

 
     
     
  Source: Clare Roscoe (daughter of former owner, Noel Roscoe)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011
 
     
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Chassis No. BL1602
Engine No. BL1603
Registration No. YV 14
Date of Delivery: Mar 1928
Type of Body: 4-seater
Coachbuilder: Vanden Plas
Type of Car: SP
   
First Owner: FITZROY N
 
     
  More Info: According to original Vanden Plas Coachbuilder records, this car was originally fitted with Body No. 1338 with a Sporting 4-seater; 2/1927.

Michael Hay, in his book Bentley: The Vintage Years, 1997, states: "Vanden Plas body no. 1338. Fitted low geared steering new."
 
     
     
  Updated: Jul 05, 2007
Posted: Mar 01, 2007
 
     
 
 
 
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