The Bentley Mark VI was the first post-war luxury car from Bentley produced from 1946 to 1952, it was also the first car from Rolls-Royce with factory coachwork but chassis were still also supplied to independent coachbuilders.

The chassis and engine went on to be used as the basis of those in the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith of 1946 and Silver Dawn of 1949.

The factory bodies were made by Pressed Steel Ltd of Coventry and sent to the Bentley works at Crewe for painting and fitting out with traditional wood and leather.

They featured rear hinged ""suicide"" doors at the front and a sliding sunroof.

Those buyers with a more discerning palette and deeper pockets also had the option of using one of the many coachbuilders available at the time such as James Young Ltd.

This was a British coach building company started in 1863 in London Road, Bromley originally producing horse-drawn carriages.

In 1908 they made their first car body for the local Member of Parliament.

From 1921 they bodie...