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1954 Bentley R-Type Standard Steel Saloon [B264WH] 
Ep. 23.128Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-12-04 19:49 |
R-type Standard Steel Saloon with automatic transmission. Chassis No. B264WH, originally supplied in Mason's Black in June 1954 to Gunbar Pastoral Co. This car has non-standard front bumper and light arrangement, apparently from a Silver Dawn, underlining the fact that you cannot rely on these items when dating cars. -- Last edit: 2015-12-08 11:37:05 |
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◊ 2015-12-04 22:42 |
History: The company was incorporated on 11 January 1947. Its registered office was at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. Shareholders were members of the Vickery family and the associated family companies Freehold and Leasehold Lands Pty Ltd and Woorooma West Pastoral Co Pty Ltd. The company operated Gunbar station, south west of Hillston, New South Wales. It was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company in 1959. Gunbar station was then managed by the subsidiary Gunbar Pty Ltd. « Functions, occupations and activities: sheep and cattle farming So a company car for a sheep-farmer. Maybe not quite Bentley's target clientele ... |
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◊ 2015-12-04 23:19 |
Why not? My car's first owner was the boss of a firm that carted ash from power stations by canal barge. |
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◊ 2015-12-04 23:50 |
The profession of the previuos and first owner of my K 70 was conducive for its condition. It was an olive-oil-wholesaler in San Remo - who parked the car always in the cellar, where the oildrums were stored. For annother K 70 (which unfortunately died by a crash) rust-problems were absolutely unthinkable: it was the company-car of a representative of the Belgian Dinitrol-division. @JFS: my search for used RR consolidated my opinion, that Old Money is the most important topic. Nouveau Riches arte unable for stylistic assurance. Well, on the other hand tasteless equipped and styled cars are generally less worth and so cheaper to buy second hand. |
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◊ 2015-12-05 00:03 |
Where there's muck there's brass as they say. And sometimes sing. |
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◊ 2015-12-05 08:59 |
Royce's started building cars in 1905 or thereabouts, following R's dissatisfaction with the engineering of a car he owned. The firm was already in existence as an electrical engineer so he was able to use facilities available. The quality ethos was already present and engineer led, the moneyed classes being attracted following the marketing expertise (although that concept was probably not so called at the time) of Rolls, a definite nob. Bentley's took the concept of engineering excellence and added a sporting flavour, supported by offering a five year guarantee on the 3 litre. WO had been an engineering apprentice at the Doncaster works of the Great Northern Railway. It was necessary to be very rich to buy either motor car, so there was no point in going for the middle class market, the money just wasn't there in quantity enough. To mine this vein of richness you needed connections and these were provided by Rolls to the aristocracy, and by the somewhat more raffish set surrounding Barnato, the millionaire who supported Bentley's. Thus the two makes were aimed somewhat differently, but Bentley were distinctly aiming for the R-R customer base with the introduction of the Eight litre. When Barnato withdrew his support at the depths of the depression, R-R outbid Napier to gain control of Bentley as they were, inter alia, concerned by the Eight litre chassis' capabilities in their perceived bailiwick. All Bentley's models were discontinued, and the Cricklewood works closed. The Derby Bentley, introduced in 1933, is proof that R-R accepted that there were two different markets for the two makes, and promoted it still further. Post WW2 developments brought the makes closer together to gain economies of scale in the production of pressed steel and later monocoque bodywork. In a lot of cases the shape of the radiator on your car was dictated by what you had owned before. As for modern trends - both makes seem to me to overdo the bling factor. -- Last edit: 2015-12-05 09:03:16 |
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◊ 2015-12-09 20:55 |
Bumper and twin foglamps were standard fitting for export and colonial cars on Mark VI and R-type. |
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