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03 March 2008

The Six-cylinder 6½ Litre Bentley

Ever since its introduction shortly after the war the three-litre four-cylinder Bentley has enjoyed an exceedingly good name for performance, durability and all-round road-worthiness, so that it is not surprising that a quite unusual amount of interest was shown when a six-cylinder 6½ litre model appeared at Olympia last October. The "Big" Bentley, as it has come to be known, is designed on lines which, while advanced and original in many ways, are essentially sound and cannot by any stretch of imagination be called freakish.