HAYNES MANUAL: BENTLEY 4.5 LITRE 1927 ONWARDS OWNERS

In this exceptional and popular series of Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals, this volume covers the Bentley 4.5 Litre all models including Blower, giving an insight into the design, engineering, maintenance and ownership of W. O. Bentley's legendary Le Mans winner. Tim Birkin's chase of Rudi Caracciola's Mercedes-Benz at Le Mans in 1930 is one of the most stirring stories in motor racing history. Here top race car engineer Andy Brown has contributed a detailed examination of the car's anatomy, illustrated with original factory drawings and numerous detailed photographs. There are memories from Bentley's leading period drivers and mechanics, and interviews with many involved in preparing and racing these iconic cars today. There is a driver's view and how contemporary drivers felt about the car including the thoughts of Sir Henry Birkin, 'Sammy' Davis and Dr Dudley Benjafield. There is the engineer's view, restoration and historic racing projects and outline histories of the individual cars raced by the factory. But best of all is the superb gallery of images, huge colour photographs, archive images and postcards, workshop and factory images such as Neil Davies' extensive machine shop and a Blower displayed on the Vanden Plas stand at the 1930 Olympian Motor Show, and proud owners like Charles Amherst Villiers reliving old memories. We also discover that it was actually Michael Burne who wrote Full Throttle at the age of 19. Hundreds of colour and other illustrations, 160pp, 21.6 x 28cm.