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1933 Bentley 3½ Litre Barker Fixed Head Coupé [B21AE]

1933 Bentley 3½ Litre [B21AE] in Something Always Happens, Movie, 1934

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

1933 Bentley 3½ Litre Barker Fixed Head Coupé [B21AE]

00:59:15 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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humungus ◊ 2024-05-06 23:49	Checkhistory suggests ALX 647 is a 1933 Bentley. The large boxy sedan seen parked next to this car in a couple of thumbs mysteriously changes to this one when the camera changes the angle:
dsl ◊ 2024-05-07 00:43	ALX 647 Bentley Colour MAROON Capacity 3669 cm³ 1933 Manufactured 1933-10 Putting into circulation 1991-10-29 Road tax expiry 2002-09-26 Latest V5C issued Exported Yes Over to our Staffordshire correspondent .....
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2024-05-07 06:48	Three and a half litre. Please allow me to provide, if I can, the body builder later. Just off to hospital. -- Last edit: 2024-05-07 06:54:02
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2024-05-07 16:44	What a nice car! This is a very early example and the flared front wings and the step between the back of the hood and the boot lid suggests that it is a Barker body. I have no proof but maybe something will turn up so I shall keep looking. For those who are under about 180 years old and do not come from this part of the world, wings are the bits of pressed steel over the road wheels, the hood is the folding canvas bit that covers the people when it rains, and the boot is the thing at the back that you put suitcases in. (However, when you look at this style of body, the Transatlantic use of “trunk” for that part of the car carries a great deal of logic!) -- Last edit: 2024-05-07 16:51:55
dsl ◊ 2024-05-07 17:19	Dabbling on a hunch from the Oct 33 plate date, I wondered if it might have been a 1933 Olympia show car. Which didn't directly lead anywhere, apart from the 3½ Litre Derby range possibly debuting at the show. But this popped up - 1933 Bentley 3½-Litre Cabriolet, registration AUU 17, chassis B17AE, the 8th production 3½-litre Derby Bentley, signed off by the factory in August 1933 and exhibited at the show with DHC body by Park Ward, then bought by AH Embiricos, brother of Bentley racing driver, AM Embiricos. Which is interesting but no cigar, until it was re-bodied in 1947 by Barker as a cabrio with the body it still wears today Not a match as several differences, but similar shapes and style??
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2024-05-07 17:28	The first production Derby chassis was B1AE, and was fitted with a VanDen Plas touring body and registered ALU321. Shown below is a Barker Fixed Head Coupé upon which I have based the build suggestion. From “Bentley - Fifty years of the Marque” by Johnnie Green. Pub Dalton Watson Ltd. 1969 -- Last edit: 2024-05-07 22:01:30 (dsl)
daimlere20 ◊ 2024-05-10 19:37	Confirmed as B21AE, and coachwork correctly identified by jfs as being Barker & Co. Ltd.
daimlere20 ◊ 2024-05-11 10:02	Foursome Cabriolet de Ville. -- Last edit: 2024-05-11 22:15:49

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