An attractive wellproportioned Derby Bentley



















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BethesdaHi Can we update the customer dealer page with this The Real Car Company Ltd The Real Car Company was established in 1987 by Ray Arnold & Ian Johnstone to specialise in the sale of early Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It was a hobby that 'Got out of hand'. Our interest in cars of the type that we now sell goes back to our childhoods, and ownership back to the 1970s. Gradually more cars started passing through our hands, and by 1986 we had decided to make a full-time occupation of buying and selling the cars that we love. We started with a single car (all we could afford) which we sold quickly, and before we knew it we had 4 or 5 on our hands! This was alongside another business (exhaust systems) that we were involved in at the time. In the spring of 1988 we gave up the other business, rented part of the premises that we still operate from now, and went full time. We started well in the boom years of the late eighties, which set us up well enough for us to ride the storm of recession in the years that followed. As the years went on the number of cars going through our hands increased gradually, we built up a workforce, and we now carry a stock of around 30 to 40 vehicles with nine of us here. Over the years we have gratefully received awards from the motoring press. We are always interested in acquiring cars of the type that we sell so if you know of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley for sale, anywhere in the World, particularly an early model, please let us know
A very attractive Derby Bentley, wellproportioned 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 ClarkNeill 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 ClarkNeill of Curling Hall, Largs who had died in 1918 (John & Edith married in 1919). James ClarkNeill 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.