Bentleybob29 solved: Ronald Kent Bentley Mark VI

[bentleybob]

Make, type year and by whom for a point, please

[bentleybob]

Experts?

[bentleybob]

Surely the professionals will mkae light work of it?

[Djetset]

The easier part first.  The chassis is a Bentley Mark IV.  Now the trickier part.  Is it a J Guerney Nutting body?

[bentleybob]

Nope , and nope

[72Must]

Bentley mk vi by Hooper , c. '50 ?

[bentleybob]

Bentley Mark VI, yes, but not by Hooper.

[woodinsight]

Unlikely I know but could the coachwork have been by Reading?

[bentleybob]

Not by Vincents of Reading, (to whom you are probably referring to...)

[woodinsight]

Not by Vincents of Reading, (to whom you are probably referring to...)

Brain fade from me, yes it was Vincents I meant 
How about Rippon or is this an obscure company?

[Djetset]

Abbott?

[bentleybob]

Nope they are all comparitively mass producers

[woodinsight]

Freestone & Webb?

[bentleybob]

Nope

[woodinsight]

Before I do some additional research on this one I'll have another guess at Lancefield......

[bentleybob]

I thought they were gone by then, but no, alas..

[Djetset]

Mulliners (Birmingham) Ltd (as opposed to H. J. Mulliner), as they made some pretty dumpy bodies.

[bentleybob]

Not them

[woodinsight]

I thought they were gone by then, but no, alas..

Lancefield were still exhibiting at Earl's Court in 1948.....
Perhaps this is the Bentley Mk VI that was bodied by Robert (Ronald?) Kent Coachbuilders?

[bentleybob]

That's it, well done, a one off, obviously based on the Standard Saloon