THE FINISH LINE

Roundup

Club Members enjoyed plenty of autumnal race, hill climb and sprint action as the competition season entered its latter stages, reports Review. Images: Courtesy of Andrew Coles (Spa), Peter McFadyen (Castle Combe), Stuart Wing, John Hallett (Loton Park), Mick Herring (Prescott) and Jo Green (Curborough)

Clive Morley (3/4½ Litre) chases the pack up the hill through the classic Eau Rouge curves at Spa

Clive Morley, the current BDC Racing Driver of the Year, and son Stuart secured an excellent result in the Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Cars race at the Spa Six Hours historic race meeting on 1-3 October.

The duo came through from fifth on the grid in their 3/4½ Litre to finish a fighting fourth in the 40-minute race around the classic Grand Prix track in Belgium.

James, another of Clive’s sons who was also campaigning a 3/4½ Litre, qualified ninth and came home in eighth place.

BDC Member Oliver Llewellyn, driving his 4½ Litre, battled not only his rivals but treacherous conditions and an unfamiliar track to score a top-five finish in the VSCC Owner/ Driver/Mechanic Award race at the

Autumn Classic Historic Racing

Festival at Castle Combe on 2 October.

Oliver Llewellyn (4½ Litre) battles the elements during the Autumn Classic Historic Racing Festival at Castle Combe

Alistair Littlewood (3 Litre) was runner-up on handicap in his class at Loton Park Joe Collings (3/4½ Litre) was the quickest BDC runner, earning him a class handicap victory, at Loton Park

Steve Allen (Derby 4¼ Special) finished second on handicap in class at Prescott

Oliver later teamed up with father Tim (Allard J2) to narrowly triumph, and record the fastest race lap, in the FISCAR Historic Intermarque race by just 1.5 seconds after grabbing the lead on the final lap – both impressively overcoming their lack of experience at the Wiltshire track.

Joe Collings enjoyed the distinction of being the fastest of a trio of Bentleys campaigned by BDC Members at the two-day VSCC Loton Park hill climb meeting on 11-12 September.

Driving his father Craig’s 1924 3/4½ Litre, Joe competed on the Sunday only and made just a single run, clocking 76.02 secs over the testing 1,475-yard course, set within the estate’s picturesque deer park, in Shropshire.

The time was good enough to ensure Joe claimed the handicap spoils in the class for special sports cars over 3000cc unsupercharged/ over 2250cc supercharged.

Also competing in Joe’s class was hill climb regular Mike Littlewood who participated on both days in his 1926 3/4½ Litre, recording a fastest time of 77.49 secs.

Alistair Littlewood, another frequent hill climb competitor, campaigned his usual 1926 3 Litre on both Saturday and Sunday, and his quickest time of 87.01 secs was good enough to give him second place on handicap in the category for standard and modified sports cars 2001-3000c unsupercharged/up to 2000cc supercharged.

Mike and Alistair took it in turns to campaign the former’s 3/4½ Litre at the VSCC Prescott Long-Course hill climb on 25 September – with Alistair emerging fastest of the pair in the class for special sports cars over 3000cc unsupercharged/over 2250cc supercharged.

Alistair stopped the clocks over the tough 1,127-yard Cotswolds course in 60.07 secs on his second of two runs, with Mike recording 62.17 secs for his single run.

The Littlewoods were joined in their class by another regular hill climber, Steve Allen, whose sole run in his 1936 Derby 4¼ Special was completed in 64.86 secs – good enough to earn him second place on handicap.

Tom Commander bested fellow Club Member Chris Townsend in the battle of the Mk VI Specials at the Aston Martin Owners Club Sprint meeting at Curborough on 19 September.

Midlands Region Chairman Tom’s 1948 example recorded a best time of 80.91 secs across his three runs over the challenging 0.9-mile figureof-eight course in Staffordshire, with Chris just half a second adrift with a fastest time of 81.58 secs. Some 56 cars participated.

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Dear Editor I’ve fitted LEDs to the Zeiss headlights, the CIBIE driving light and to the tail/brake and high-intensity rear lights on my 1929 Blower. Everything on this car was absolutely fantastic other than the lights – they were all but useless… yet drew well over 10 amps! Twice this year I’ve been caught out in dangerous situations, far from home, with inadequate lights – and in one instance with no lights at all, front or rear.

So I’ve installed newly designed LEDs that generate a safe and effective beam pattern that’s razor sharp on dipped and phenomenal on main (pictured). Now, even when the whole lot of them are on, the ammeter is showing only about five amps, well below what the alternator is banging out, even at about 1200rpm.

And they’re really not that expensive, at about £30 per LED for the dual-function front lights and about £7 each for the dual-function tail lights. They’re also dead easy to fit, being almost identical in size, and in bayonet fitting, to the originals (which I’ve kept in case an overzealous MOT tester hasn’t read the updated regulations that DO allow LED conversions on pre-1986 cars).

This conversion has given me, for the first time in 14 years, the confidence to know that, if I do get caught out again in a night-time downpour with a less than fully charged battery, I won’t be worried stiff that I’ll cause an accident. There aren’t many things that can be improved on WO’s brilliant creations, but lighting is certainly one of them!

I’d be interested to know other Members’ thoughts on this… and happy to help anyone wanting to ask any questions.

Ron Warmington

HALF CENTURY OF ‘AMAZING’ PLEASURE

Dear Editor The other day I received a very pleasant surprise through the post. It was a badge to mark my 50 years’ membership of the BDC (pictured). What a mark of the passage of time – but also what a reminder of all the pleasure that I have derived from my membership.

Daphne and I have made many firm friendships within the Club. We have enjoyed so many amazing Club events around Britain and abroad, and countless jolly and entertaining Regional events here in Scotland. And I have had advice and support with my many Vintage, Derby and Crewe Bentleys.

Sadly, too many of the good friends have passed on and I get to fewer events these days. Also downsizing has meant that the number of Bentleys has reduced, although still keeping the one I first joined the Club with – my wonderful big-bore Mk VI – that I bought as my everyday car in 1966.

What a very special Club to provide such a lifetime of friendship, experiences and support. Thank you all very much.

GEORGE ENJOYS HIS EUROPEAN TOUR

Dear Editor The second Covid-19 year provided us again with limited opportunities to use George, our 1928 4½ Litre.

However, despite these, we were able to travel as far east as Vienna, Austria, and back as well as participating at some events, such as the Austria Historic in Styria and the German WO Friends event on Lake Constance – all adding up to 4,000 miles of flawless and happy motoring.

On our way back to the UK we managed to visit some historic sites, among them the Waterloo battle ground in Belgium with the historic monument (pictured).

Of course, we could not resist snapping a picture of two great and very significant British events, taking place only about 100 years apart: the winning battle and the creation of what we believe is the best British motor car ever!

Tony Judd

2 MARCH 1939 – 25 SEPTEMBER 2021

Remembered by David Rolfe

Former Club Chairman Anthony Stokes (Tony) Judd, who has died aged 82, was a loyal friend, wit, bon-viveur, architectural business partner, and all-round good egg.

Claiming Welsh heritage from his early childhood there, he was brought up and educated in Southend-on-Sea, graduating with a Diploma in Architecture from Southend School of Architecture. After student-vacation work episodes embracing manual jobs, market trading and other entrepreneurial pastimes, he worked for local architectural practices before joining a small busy firm in London’s New Oxford Street, where he and I first met. When we were later made redundant in 1968, we took the opportunity to establish the first architectural ‘group practice’, an arrangement at that time frowned upon by the professional institute.

With the help of many people, and by working and playing equally hard (and with much luck!), this proved successful and allowed for pastimes such as Vintage Bentley motoring, leading to membership of the BDC in the early 1970s.

Tony’s forte was design, publicity and personality. In this he was supported by his wife, Chrystine. Their only regret was that they never had a family. Tony’s affinity with children generally was only surpassed by their delight in his presence, soon becoming ‘Uncle Tony’ to many.

Rolfe Judd has gone from strength to strength and, following our retirement in 1999, Tony soon missed the ‘craic’ and built up another mixed-discipline design firm from which he only stood down a couple of years ago.

He was a generous chap but could be intolerant of those few folk with whom he did not get along or understand. Unfortunately, he had his share of tragedies, losing his wife and only brother, Ray, at too early an age. As a younger man he was good at most sports and his enthusiasm for many subjects meant he could chat with almost anyone on any topic. In recent years he enjoyed fly-fishing with a new circle of likeminded chums.

Tony joined the BDC Main Committee under Ray Wiltshire, serving as Club Chairman from 1994-1997, and continued to promote association with and support for Bentley Motors until standing down from the Board in 2018.

His contribution to the BDC was manifold, firstly joint editing 23 issues of the Review with John Nutter, until they both handed over to Iris Terry after the final Golden Jubilee edition in December 1986.

He raced his favourite 4½ Litre YV 9986 in the 1970s and ’80s, joined in many other Regional events and tours, and arranged a successful Tour of Europe in the later ’80s. He also organised filming of the Club’s 1997 visit to Le Mans. He later instigated the Club’s presence with marketing displays at Donington and Silverstone events, and assisted me with editing the Club’s 75th Anniversary Book in 2006.

Subsequently, he continued to support his Eastern Region friends by becoming Regional Chairman and later a committee member until illness prevented further activity leading to his untimely death.

Those who knew him well will greatly miss him, and I am bereft of his unfailing humour, mischievous contempt for pomposity, good company and badinage.

Foundation Corner

Bentley Belle

‘It’s a Bentley, Jim, but not as we know it’

That would surely be the only possible response if Captain Kirk and Mr Spock had beamed down to Pinin Farina’s design office at 107 Corso Trapani, Turin, in early 1948 instead of to the Star Trek set in Hollywood in the late 1960s! A comment by two visiting British coachbuilders later that year might well have been politer, but they could be forgiven for being taken aback by this eyebrow-raising amalgam of the traditional Bentley radiator with one of the more outré Italian coachbuilding conceits of the pre-war and post-war era, a fashion which apparently emanated from a galaxy far, far away, if not from a parallel universe.

Our previous ‘Bentley Belle’ (Review 331) found Stanley Watts and Arthur Johnstone of HJ Mulliner at the Pinin Farina works during a tour planned to investigate recent advances in lightweight body construction made by Italian coachbuilders. This rare international foray had been prompted by Crewe’s known interest in developing a highperformance Bentley descended from the pre-war Embiricos ‘streamliner’ (chassis B-27-LE) and the stillborn Mk V Corniche.

In preparation for the visit, Pinin Farina prepared two distinctive proposals for the Mk VI. The first was the blatantly plagiarised roadster featured in Review 331 and the second appears above, resplendent in a dazzling polychromatic combination of colours that evoked bright Italian sunlight and blue skies rather than the pea-soupers and smog of postwar austerity Britain. Yet the choice was shrewd, not random; this pairing

The Bentley was clearly derived from this Alfa Romeo 6C2500 SS constructed by Pinin Farina in 1947 in fact demonstrates the level of planning which had been devoted to the visit. Both proposals presented traditional styles of British coachwork which would have been familiar to their visitors, but which in the Corso Trapani versions deliberately broke free from the British design ethos and reinterpreted it with radical, distinctly Italian brio. The actual style of coachwork in Pinin Farina’s striking rendering by visualiser F Bianco is perhaps deliberately ambivalent. At first sight a three-position drophead, the sharply delineated front edge of the open roof hints at the possibility of a sedanca coupé, a pre-war style for Derby-built Bentleys which was rarely sighted among British exponents of Mk VI coachbuilding and was

As production gradually resumed in the immediate post-war years, Pinin Farina was searching to define a new house style effectively unknown in Pinin Farina’s post-war output.

Nonetheless, the defining characteristic of the design is the elephantine front wings. This half-way house between separate front wings flowing gracefully into running boards and the fully integrated ponton style of the late 1940s found its origin in the ‘bobbed wing’ designs launched from the studios of major US manufacturers for the 1937 model year. In common with other Italian coachbuilders, Pinin Farina was consistently alert to American ideas and often incorporated them in his own offerings, albeit filtered through a distinctly Italian sensibility. Thus, by 1939, this singularly inelegant fashion was leaving its mark upon the creations of Pinin Farina, Touring and other Italian exponents of the automotive bella figura. Surprisingly, the theme was resuscitated post-war with variations on Alfa Romeo and Lancia chassis, despite American models having

Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina (he’s on the right, by the way) with his 1947 supermodel

B-435-CD, exhibited at the Geneva Salon of March 1949 and then delivered to Dr Willi Spieler

moved towards full-width bodywork as early as 1942. Indeed, in the immediate post-war years Pinin Farina explored multiple design themes for body, wings and grilles which both harked backwards and anticipated the future.

Despite such an eclectic approach, it is difficult to credit that the fundamentally retrospective concept depicted in our rendering emerged from the Pinin Farina studio the year after the epoch-making Cisitalia 202 and in the same year as the svelte Bentley Cresta.

Perhaps mercifully for the reputation of both Bentley Motors and HJ Mulliner, no Bentley in this style was actually launched upon an astonished world. Mulliner’s offerings evolved rapidly into its ‘Lightweight’ series and the R Type Continental, while Pinin Farina’s sole Mk VI convertible (chassis B-435-CD), which emerged in early 1949, displayed a considerably more homogeneous, albeit slightly ponderous, style with wing shapes more tightly integrated into the main body than the semiindependent entities of our rendering.

Can our design be considered a true Bentley Belle? For the defence, we can but plead that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that the eyes of Pinin Farina’s designers must surely have beheld beauty when they proudly presented their work to the British visitors almost three-quarters of a century ago. Posterity may pass a different verdict, but, of course, hindsight is the only perfect art.

Postscript: to prevent the Editor’s postbag being overwhelmed by correspondence from outraged Star Trek anoraks among BDC Members, the author is well aware that Mr Spock’s actual words were “No life as we know it.” However, in this case we’re printing the legend…

WOBMF News Update

1888 is launched

The inaugural issue of the Foundation’s annual journal, titled 1888, was launched at the Clubhouse on 24 November with a special party. The afternoon also marked both the arrival at Wroxton of the 3 Litre prototype racer EXP2 (kindly loaned by Bentley Motors) and the official unveiling of the Foundation’s new display on the early years of Bentley racing.

The first issue of 1888, which is intended to become the Bentley journal of record, includes articles ranging from WO’s candid opinions of his ‘Boys’ to an insight into designing Bentleys for the C21. 1888 is being sent free of charge to Foundation Life Members and donors and can also be bought from the Club Shop for £15.

Speaker panel for Talks Day announced

Get the date in your diary for the inaugural Talks Day at the Clubhouse, on Saturday 2 April 2022, jointly presented by the Club and the Foundation.

Michael Barton, Foundation Trustee, explained: “We’ve put together a stellar list of entertaining speakers for what promises to one of the most enjoyable events ever staged at the Clubhouse. From the Gobi Desert via the racetrack at Le Mans to our own Midlands car factories – we’re transporting you across half the world in five hours!”

As the headliner we’re honoured to welcome the legendary Sir John Egan, who rescued Jaguar from imminent collapse in the 1980s against all odds and then rebuilt one of our most admired British carmakers. His talk will be entitled ‘Saving Jaguar’.

Best-selling author and Foundation Life Member Peter Grimsdale will present ‘Racing in the Dark’, the gripping story of the people, races and events that established the Bentley legend in the 1920s.

And, finally, Club Member Doug McWilliams, one of Britain’s leading economists, will be ‘Driving the Silk Road’, recounting the epic tale of how he and brother Mike drove the 10,000-mile Peking to Paris Motor Challenge in their S1.

Book now via the Club website, or call Noel Trewhela in the Club Shop, for this entertaining day, which includes morning coffee, lunchtime finger buffet and tea in the afternoon for £15 (Foundation Life Members and donors) or £25 (others including guests).

A Day in the Life of the Archive

By Ian Scott

The box spanners, one of which is stamped with George Thomas Sharp’s name

We recently received this pair of box spanners from David Sharp, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. The spanners were made by David’s father George Thomas Sharp who, we understand, was a Bentley employee until Cricklewood closed in 1931.

George made these box spanners from gudgeon pins and used them as part of his personal toolkit. Who knows, they may have been used to assemble some of the Cricklewood cars belonging to current Members.

Shopping for History

By Ian Scott

During a recent visit to Dundonald in Northern Ireland, I came across this mural depicting the famous RAC International Tourist Trophy race on the Ards circuit which ran between Dundonald, Newtownards and Comber.

As you can see, the rather strange location for the mural happens to be on the side of a Spar shop on the Comber road along which the cars would have raced before taking the Dundonald hairpin corner onto the Newtownards road.

Birkin (driving), with WO as the riding mechanic, at the 1929 Ards TT. Strangely, we have found no evidence that they stopped at the Spar shop on their way past!

Season’s Greetings

The Bentley Memorial Foundation and the Foundation Corner team would like to wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

This fabulous picture, entitled Winter Sunshine, was painted by Roy Nockolds and used on the BDC’s 1961 Christmas card

Take out an Associate Membership of the Foundation – for life. And please remember the WOBMF in your will – to ensure our work continues.

mailbox Editor’s Mailbox OBITUARY Chris Jonas

5 SEPTEMBER 1935 – 24 OCTOBER 2021

Remembered by Ken Lea

Most Members will have seen the notice of Chris’ death on Full Throttle. Nevertheless, I recount here not only his marvellous and continuous support for the Club, his escapades with his cars and participation in so many events worldwide but also provide an insight into the man himself and his many other achievements.

Chris was the youngest child of a well-known Sheffield family where to this day the Jonas name is still prominent, for example at Sheffield University. There were four brothers and a sister. In his early years he attended school in Bexhill before going on to Shrewsbury School.

His brother, Tim, also a prominent BDC Member, claims that Chris was always full of hair-raising schemes from early on!

Tim recalls Chris’ early interest was an enthusiasm for model aircraft, in those days a two-man operation.

Flown by mechanical wire control, one featured a very early 1cc diesel fuelled by some fearsome mixture including ether and castor oil which their mother had to buy at the chemist. With Tim on controls, Chris did lastminute fuelling and tuning for maximum revolutions. Early signs of his entrepreneurial spirit were seen when he developed a later free-flying larger model which flew so well over some trees it was never seen again! Clearly, more adventure was required and so followed a jointly used go-kart with pram wheels and rudimentary steering – a bit wild on steep hills but they both survived.

However, the latent transport bug was developed by building a two-man canoe used on camping/canoeing holidays. Chris wanted to ‘shoot the rapids’ so a trip to Scotland ensued where unauthorised use of a privately owned stretch of river resulted in disaster when he hit a rock and sank. Tim stationed downstream, in case he fell out, rescued the canoe and repairs were undertaken for it to be used many years thereafter.

Road transport was next, firstly through use of his sister’s Rudge autocycle with long journeys to see friends where his goal was to arrive on time thus necessitating strenuous pedalling. Then graduation to a car, a rather battered pre-war Standard saloon where his first task was to keep the doors shut when going round corners, although Tim corroborates a story that Chris told me that the back of the front bench seat had a quick release catch to make a couch. Such memories!

Chris undertook his National Service following on from school and was posted to Kenya during the Mau Mau conflict, but on leaving the army he joined a firm selling office equipment before moving to Edinburgh to set up his own successful business selling carpets.

This also started off his interest in Bentleys, joining the BDC in October 1976. In 1980 he drove a 3 Litre for the first time and, with the usual camaraderie of this Region, soon became involved with his first Bentley, restoring the car, with the help of Stewart Gordon, from a derelict Hooper saloon. This car is still part of the fleet but was later further enhanced.

Chris ventured also into racing (pictured), firstly in Formula Ford and latterly with another hard used Derby, known as ‘The Cockroach’, raced spiritedly. These projects were transported on a trailer behind an S2 Continental that he used as his everyday car but subject to commentary from some Scottish Members as being a bit modern.

At Scottish Whit, he was also an enthusiastic participant in the Gordon Stewart Golf Hickory Trophy, eventually achieving a win in 1985 and of which he was justly proud.

Chris met Rita in 1975 and they were married in 1983 in Scotland by another BDC Member, the Reverend Bill Paterson, who arrived in his 3 Litre and then donned his cassock. Bill subsequently remained a close and valued friend over the ups and downs of life. Though we did not know it at the time, this was the start of ‘Team Jonas’ so embedded in the BDC’s affairs.

Chris & Rita arrived in the North-West Region in 1983 when they formed Quest Refrigeration. I know Rita was much evident on the sales and marketing front and with customers, but it was Chris, in the gentlemanly way we came to know, who firmly steered the ship.

In 1987 Chris bought a new Turbo R, much used for over 30 years, until sold still going well with over 100,000 miles on the clock. Other car interests extended to a pre-war MG saloon, still run in the family, and a much-admired Plymouth Fury left to him by an ‘admirer’. Its outings to American car events were something different! But his most treasured purchase was the HM Bentley rebuilt Speed Six which he used frequently, and of late on many events both in the UK and internationally. On the sale of the business, Rita suddenly found herself the proud owner of an Azure! This to be followed by the Mulsanne some five years ago.

The attraction of the Cote d’Azur beckoned and so began the Team Jonas events, the first of six in Monaco in 2008 on the occasions of the Monte Carlo Motor Club’s Grand Prix Historique. The usual formula was evident with Chris quietly fully supportive in many ways. Yet another example of his quintessential role over the years.

Intertwined in all this were many rallies and events, some for fund raising for which Team Jonas is also renowned, which included a trip with Prince Michael of Kent to Russia, both coasts of America, New Zealand, and many in Europe and the UK.

In closing: Chris’ easy charm and ability to communicate, together with his attention to ‘standards’, meant he had many friends worldwide by whom he will be sadly missed. However, this was underpinned by a strong personal determination throughout his life and seen in everything he did either in business or in his many other interests. His enthusiasm for life, adventure, cars and many other pursuits will be remembered always by his family and friends.

Lastly, all at the BDC offer our deep sympathy to Rita and his family.

The Finish Line

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Former Club Chairman Mike Warner, aka Father Christmas, and fellow Western Region Member Caryn Reynolds, resplendent as Santa’s elfie helper, bring sackfuls of yuletide joy and festive greetings to one and all! Also embracing the seasonal spirit at the Western Region 2018 Christmas bash at the Arundell Arms in the quaint Devon village of Lifton is the hotel’s maître d’. Image: Courtesy of Western Region

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