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Only 4 cylinder Bentleys have a Chassis Number on the switch plate.
 

"A foible of the Vintage owner is the claim that you cannot really drive a Cricklewood Bentley until you have mastered the crash gearbox. By this they mean changing through all gears WITHOUT using the clutch.

Don't try it — unless you like your gear oil liberally laced with iron filings. It can also make a noice like an angle grinder making love to a circular saw. If the great WO, in his wisdom, felt it necessary to provide a clutch, it seems churlish not to use it.

In most cases, WO also provided his Bentleys with a gadget called a clutch-stop. (Don't ask what it is — but it is meant to make for easier gearchanging.)

Clutch-stops are never correctly adjusted — so you might as well try clutchless gearchanges after all."

 
 
Source: John Hamperl, "Bentley Drivers Club Review", No. 244
Posted: Feb 05, 2008

 
 
 
 
 
 
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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