redshoesnblueskies reblogged
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A Sunday star guest just arrived! Meet Mary everyone, THE Bentley. (Yes, THE Bentley you saw in the show.) Her lovely owner can tell stories…WAHOO!
Watch out for countless cosplay pics to come, most likely over at the twittering site hashtag theineffablecon.
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Traffic warden. Bentley. Crew. Director. We are only missing Terry Pratchett. Or I am. #GoodOmens
OK I’m narrowing this down to a 3-½ litre coupe 1934-1935. To me, it’s obviously a Derby Bentley - from after Bentley was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1931. The first new models came out in 1933, with sales to the general public in 1934. I went with 3-½ instead of 4-½ because, although the bonnet length looks remarkably similar (at least to me), the 4-½ wasn’t available until 1936.
The fully functioning, rolling chassis were built in Derby at the Rolls Royce factory and then finished at one of more than a dozen coachbuilders for a body to be placed upon it. Only a year after introducing the 3 ½ Litre model, no fewer than fourteen coachbuilders - Arnold, Barker, Cockshoot, Freestone & Webb, Hooper, Mann Egerton, Arthur Mulliner, H.J. Mulliner, Gurney Nutting, Park Ward, Rippon, Thrupp & Maberly, Vanden Plas, and James Young - would all be building their own special bodies on this chassis. Over half the cars were built with Park Ward bodywork. The vast majority of cars featured bodies from the UK, but a handful were fitted with bodies produced in other countries. (x)
There are some distinctive features on this example - like the vent windows (or pillared front windows), grooved running boards, and the ridges down the front fenders - that I was unable to find on any one car. I searched for photos of THIS particular vehicle and wasn’t able to find any.
It is indeed a 3 ½ litre Derby model. Coachwork by the Thrupp and Maberly company.
I know nothing about cars but I loved chatting to its real owner about the car and its history.
I miss this car like a friend.