Asking Price: £395k
1956 Bentley
Frank Dale • UK
Market Position:
Mid-Market
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Asking Price: £395,000
1956 Bentley
UK
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1956 Bentley S1 Continental, chassis BC53AF, is a right-hand drive model with a rich history of ownership and recent mechanical and cosmetic improvements, including a repaint and updated air conditioning. It has won awards at prestigious Concours events, making it a beautifully sorted and historically significant vehicle.
Condition
8
Repaint, re-chroming, improvements inside
/ 10
67,683 miles (via 2024 MOT)
MSK987
1956
Classified
BC53AF
RHD
United Kingdom
Asking Price: £395k
1956 Bentley
Frank Dale • UK
Market Position:
Mid-Market
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Description
Chassis No BC53AF is the seventeenth of ninety seven cars built in right hand drive to Design No 7400 by H.J. Mulliner.
It was originally completed in January of 1956 finished in Circassian blue with a blue leather (VM3087) interior.
It was supplied by Paragon Motor Co Ltd to its first owner Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd of St Andrews Dock in Hull which were a company that owned a fleet of trawlers.
It was purchased for the personal use of Mr H.
Watson Hall and was specified with a lowered rear seat cushion to allow more headroom.
The car was then owned in the late 1970 s by Mr E.G.C.
Hulbert who lived near Wandsworth Common.
In 1985 it was purchased by Mr Terry Unwin who retained the car until 1990 when he sold it to Mr Gianni Vivendi who was an antique dealer in London.
The penultimate owner to date sold the car in 2018 having had BC53AF for a twenty-year period.
The present owner entrusted the car to Frank Dale in more recent times where a series of improvements were carried out ...
Price Analysis vs Other S1 Continental H.J. Mulliners
£145,034
Lowest Price (Since 2020)
£481,175
Median Price (Since 2020)
£993,799
Highest Price (Since 2020)
World Record
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Mid-Market
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Average Price
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Rare Sale
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MOT Information
Expired
Expired on 12th Jun 2025
Latest MOT mileage:
67,683 miles
MOT History
Passed
On 13th Jun 2024, 67,683 miles
Passed
On 5th Aug 2021, 67,065 miles
Passed
On 5th Sept 2018, 66,217 miles
Passed
On 24th Mar 2017, 65,700 miles
MOT Mileage Trend
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