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Bentleybob29 solved: Ronald Kent Bentley Mark VI
« on: January 17, 2012, 08:56:15 PM »
Make, type year and by whom for a point, please

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2012, 04:16:22 AM »
Experts?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2012, 05:06:23 PM »
Surely the professionals will mkae light work of it?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2012, 05:13:37 PM »
The easier part first.  The chassis is a Bentley Mark IV.  Now the trickier part.  Is it a J Guerney Nutting body?
A car is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2012, 05:19:43 PM »
Nope ;), and nope :)

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2012, 07:27:28 PM »
Bentley mk vi by Hooper , c. '50 ?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2012, 03:12:56 AM »
Bentley Mark VI, yes, but not by Hooper.

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2012, 03:27:55 AM »
Unlikely I know but could the coachwork have been by Reading?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2012, 05:50:11 AM »
Not by Vincents of Reading, (to whom you are probably referring to...)

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2012, 06:48:04 AM »
Not by Vincents of Reading, (to whom you are probably referring to...)
Brain fade from me, yes it was Vincents I meant  :-[
How about Rippon or is this an obscure company?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2012, 08:10:12 AM »
Abbott?
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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2012, 12:52:10 PM »
Nope they are all comparitively mass producers ;)

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2012, 01:39:29 PM »
Freestone & Webb?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2012, 02:51:32 PM »
Nope

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2012, 03:06:21 PM »
Before I do some additional research on this one I'll have another guess at Lancefield......

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2012, 03:18:01 PM »
I thought they were gone by then, but no, alas..

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2012, 03:59:11 PM »
Mulliners (Birmingham) Ltd (as opposed to H. J. Mulliner), as they made some pretty dumpy bodies.
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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2012, 03:00:53 AM »
Not them

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2012, 03:17:21 AM »
I thought they were gone by then, but no, alas..
Lancefield were still exhibiting at Earl's Court in 1948.....
Perhaps this is the Bentley Mk VI that was bodied by Robert (Ronald?) Kent Coachbuilders?

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Re: Bentleybob29
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2012, 03:29:50 AM »
That's it, well done, a one off, obviously based on the Standard Saloon