• The only Mark VI Bentley bodied by Mulliners of Birmingham • Commissioned by Sir John Black, Managing Director of Standard-Triumph • Extensive 12,000 man-hour restoration by marque specialists • Exhibited at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2014 • Multiple concours award-winner The policy of rationalisation begun in the late 1930s continued at Rolls-Royce after the war with the introduction of standard bodywork on the Mark VI Bentley.

Rolls-Royce's first post-WW2 product, the Mark VI was introduced in 1946, a year ahead of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.

Although mechanically similar to the Mark VI, the latter was exclusively a coachbuilt car, the first 'standard steel' Rolls-Royce, the Silver Dawn, not appearing until 1949.

In a break from the coachbuilt tradition the new standardised body was made of pressed steel panels welded together.

It was available at first only on the Mark VI Bentley, though customers could still opt for a coachbuilt alternative.

A separate chassi...