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A Bentley 4 Litre featuring a 4-Litre Inline-6 engine in a shortened chassis was announced on 15 May 1931. Introduced a year into the Great Depression, the 8-litre and its smaller 4-litre sibling were unable to turn the company's finances around. Less than nine months after the 8-litre's introduction, Bentley Motors was placed into receivership.
1931: Bentley: 8 Litre Gurney Nutting Sports Tourer YF5011 Michael Kadoorie: 2020 None 2021 [16] 1938: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Autobahn Kurier 408336 Arturo & Deborah Keller 2022 [17] 1932 Duesenberg Model J Figoni Sports Torpedo 2509 Lee R. Anderson Sr. 2023 [18] 1937: Mercedes-Benz: 540K Special Roadster 154075 [19] Jim Patterson Patterson ...
Bentley's winter of 1931/1932 was hard, his wife divorced him and he lost any form of personal transport, when he was asked to return his personal Bentley 8 Litre. Hearing of this William Rootes arranged for him to test a new Hillman each weekend.
The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 [5] as a more sporting version of the Bentley 6½ Litre. [12] With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, [5] [8] [11] a high-performance camshaft, [14] and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced 180 hp (130 kW) at 3500 rpm.
From its founding in 1919 and early wins at Le Mans to its baronial beasts of today, the marque continues to refine performance and style.
The Bentley 4 Litre was a motor car built on rolling chassis made by Bentley Motors Limited in 1931. [4] The 4-litre chassis was conceived and built in a failed attempt to restore Bentley to a good financial state. Announced 15 May 1931, [6] it used a modified 4-litre Ricardo IOE engine in a shortened 8 Litre chassis at two-thirds of the price ...
Rolls-Royce stopped production of the new Bentley 8 Litre, which was threatening sales of their current Phantom, disposed of remaining Bentley assets and using just the Bentley name and its repute. After 1931, Rolls-Royce stopped production of the Bentley 8 Litre, a competitor of the Phantom. After two years of development Rolls-Royce ...
Bentley 4½ Litre: 5.0 135 5th 5th 1929: Bentley Motors Ltd Woolf Barnato: Bentley Speed Six: 8.0 174 1st: 1st: 1930: Hon. Dorothy Paget: Jean Chassagne: Bentley 4½ Litre 'Blower' >3.0 138 DNF (Engine) 1931: Earl Howe (private entrant) Francis Curzon, Earl Howe: Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 LM 3.0 184 1st: 1st: 1932: Earl Howe (private entrant) Francis ...