Bentley MK VI (1951)

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One of the desirable 4½ Litre versions, this MKVI is in sound, very smart condition, finished in two shades of blue, with harmonising blue/grey leather interior, which also incorporating excellent carpets, headlining and attractive woodwork. The car drives really well, being sprightly, with excellent brakes, steering suspension, etc – one of those cars which just feel ‘right’ on the road. The condition is ideal for use and enjoyment, smart, correct, handsome, going well, but not so pristine that you don’t want to touch it! One of the big attractions of MKVIs is their practicality and usability in modern traffic, which they are more than capable of keeping up with. Supplied serviced, ready to go and MoT tested.


Chassis No. B225MB. Reg No. JGO 467. £36,500


Snippets: Manchester Oil, Nadin’s Sweets & a Recording Studio
The 1st owner of B225MB was Dr. Georg Tugendhat (1897/1973) - he arrived in London in April 1921 having studied Economics at Vienna University and by 1923 he had become the London correspondent for the Austrian Paper “Neue Freie Presse”. Prior to WWII Georg Tugendhat & Dr F. Kind formed the Manchester Oil Refinery and at one stage due to enquiries that Georg made there were suspicions that he may have been a German Agent and later on captured German papers suspected that Tugendhat’s companies were British spies! By the time Georg purchased B225MB his companies included Puremor Ltd., British Transformer Oil & Lubricants Ltd., Raven Oil Ltd, Petromor Ltd and shares in Petroleum & Flexibox Ltd. By 1954 B225MB was with Percy Nadin of Stoke on Trent, a shareholder in Kensington Engineering and proprietor of a Sweet Factory called “Old Betty Plant’s” which had been taken over by William Nadin (Percy’s father) in 1914. Their products ranged from dairy mints, sugar almonds, cough drops and over 100 varieties of boiled sweets – apparently William Nadin gave himself the job of chief taster! Percy Nadin died in 1968 and shortly after it would appear that the Bentley made its way to California to be with Paul Schwartz the owner of Studio 56 – artists who used to make their demos here included Roy Orbison, Smokey Robinson, Fleetwood Mac, The Jackson 5, Duane Baron, Queen Latifah and Christina Aguilera. I wonder how many of Studio 56s clients sat in B225MB – now that would be a story to tell.

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