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10 March 2008
Talking of Sports Cars: Speed Six
The notes upon this car that follow are not in the more usual form from an actual owner, he being a person unknown at the moment. They come from A. F. Rivers Fletcher, who, as he described in an article published some time ago in The Autocar, was with the old Bentley firm during the racing era. He was fortunate enough to encounter the Speed Six which that redoubtable pair of "Bentley Boys", Woolf Barnato and Glen Kidston, drove to victory in the 1930 Le Mans 24-hour race.
The notes upon this car that follow are not in the more usual form from an actual owner, he being a person unknown at the moment. They come from A. F. Rivers Fletcher, who, as he described in an article published some time ago in The Autocar, was with the old Bentley firm during the racing era. He was fortunate enough to encounter the Speed Six which that redoubtable pair of "Bentley Boys", Woolf Barnato and Glen Kidston, drove to victory in the 1930 Le Mans 24-hour race. Continued...
