Bentley 3.5 Litre 1935 - Thrupp & Maberley Sports Saloon B36EF 4-Door

A very attractive Derby Bentley, well-proportioned with some appealing touches, such as trouser crease wings, chrome waistline mouldings, Marchal headlights, long trumpet Lucas horns, and, very unusually, a chrome plated dashboard. Finished in light grey and green, harmonising nicely with the original green leather interior. An essentially good car, running well and driving nicely. The history file includes, amongst many other documents, evidence of an engine overhaul in 2016, (which included new main and big end bearings), a number of old MoT certificates, a tax disc from 1970, various invoices, an ownership record, etc, etc. Chassis No. B36EF. Reg No. CXF 119.Snippets: Gun Roller & a South African LochAfter being used by Jack Barclay as their show car B36EF was sold to Arthur David Tipper of Handsworth Wood in Birmingham. In 1865 his uncle Henry Tipper had registered Patent Nr 1738 for improvements in manufacturing gun barrels & tubes of cast steel & iron. Almost 60 years later Arthur Tipper also applied for patents but this time relating to sash windows, door latches, door locks, door hooks & metal brackets, how many of us can remember the hooks in school corridors and changing rooms from our youth?In 1939 the Bentley was bought by John Christian Duncan (1892/1947) & his wife Edith Clark Clark-Neill Duncan of 49 Knightsbridge Court, London. John Duncan was originally from Loch Bridge, Barkly East, of all places not in Scotland but on the banks of the Kraai River in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Edith Clark was the wealthy widow of James Clark-Neill of Curling Hall, Largs who had died in 1918 (John & Edith married in 1919). James Clark-Neill was a scion of two equally industrious families with his mother Elizabeth Clark connected to the cotton, fabrics & thread industries (she left £11m in 1900) & his father William Neill being involved in the sugar industry (he left £11m in 1903)! Just before John Duncan died B36EF was sold to the Campbell family who kept the car until 1976, there is a note with the car that in 1969 it was used by Peter Campbell whilst he was training at Sandhurst prior to serving with the Rhine Company. Peter has very fond memories of the car & would enjoy relating tales of his ownership with the next custodian.