No Reserve – Entered from the Alyth Collection.

Registration No: Un-RegisteredChassis No: B193CDMOT: Exempt

Entered from the Alyth Collection, a collection of motor cars kept in storage in Scotland for over 30 years
Supplied new to E.

E.

Bailey
A worthwhile restoration project supplied with many components
Understood to have been first registered as 'JUC 859'

Introduced in 1946, Bentley's Mk.

VI was the first vehicle ever offered by the company with factory-designed coachwork, and the first to be assembled in Rolls-Royce's Crewe factory rather than the old Derby premises.

Aimed at the emerging 'owner-driver' luxury car market, the newcomer was closely based on the 1939 Mk.

V (of which only fifteen were produced).

Built around a massive cruciform-braced chassis with independent front suspension and a leaf-sprung 'live' rear axle, it was fitted with a freshly developed 4,257cc OISE (overhead inlet, side exhaust valve) straight-six engine mated to a four-speed manual gearbox.

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