{"id":84309,"date":"2021-11-12T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T12:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=84309"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:14:51","slug":"100-years-of-customer-cars-at-bentley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/100-years-of-customer-cars-at-bentley\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years of customer cars at Bentley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although the Bentley luxury brand was founded in 1919, it took until 1921 before a first customer vehicle was delivered. This was a 3-Litre, registered on the license plate “KS 1661”. The buyer was the private racing driver Noel van Raalte from London. His family owned Brownsea Island near Poole Harbour. Like all early Bentleys, this car came from the first Bentley factory at Cricklewood in north London. He paid \u00a3 1,150 for the Bentley with light alloy body and brass brightwork, a high sum for which several cheaper new cars could have been obtained at that time. Although Noel van Raalte was the first paying customer, Ivor Llewellyn received his 3-Litre before him. Already in August 1921 Bentley delivered to him the first of three cars ordered by him. This was the third Bentley 3-Litre ever produced. The car still exists today as the oldest non-experimental Bentley.<\/p>\n\n\n

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