Topic: SAC#295 : Bentley 3 1/2 litre Letourneur & Marchand

[SACO]

For one point, specify the make,  and coachbuilder ?

[SACO]

Experts ?

[RayTheRat]

1934 Bentley?  Don't know about the coachbuilder at the moment.

[SACO]

Yes ,Bentley circa 1934 !

[bentleybob]

Bentley 3 1/2 litre Letourneur & Marchand, supplied August 1935 to Sir Robert Bland Bird, Bt., MP, Chairman of Albert Bird & Sons Ltd, custard makers. UK registration ALM 90. Chassis nr . B86BN. This pic is out of La Vie Automobile. Ordered as a fixed head coupe, but then changed his mind and it became a four door saloon..

[SACO]

Yes , it's the car !
The  "Letourneur yo-yo period " :
1 point for bentleybob !
And  for the 200 points 

[bentleybob]

Thanks for the point, and how appropriate it is with a Bentley that I get  to 200!

[Joćo]

Congrats bentleybob!  

[bentleybob]

BTW: A bit of an eccentric, this guy who ordered the car. Who in his right mind, an MP and all, would order French body like this on a English build Bentley, and an oddity like this at that. And the colours: Body in grey-green, with black mudguards, beige accents on body and beige painted wheel discs, interior in tan hide and fawn tapestry...
Thanks Joćo, for the congrats..

[Allan L]

Bentley 3 1/2 litre Letourneur & Marchand, supplied August 1935 to Sir Robert Bland Birt, Bt., MP, Chairman of Albert Birt & SonsLtd, custard makers. Uk registration ALM 90. Chassis nr . B86BN. This pic is out of La Vie Automobile. Ordered as a fixed head coupe, but then changed his mind and it became a four door saloon..

I hope you'll agree that the name of the synthetic custard company and the  family that ran it was Bird, not Birt! At least it wasn't custard-yellow in colour.

[bentleybob]

Yes Bird, not Birt. And tx

[woodinsight]

Congratulations Bentleybob!