Milestones – 90th Birthday of Derby Bentleys

90th Birthday of Derby Bentleys – courtesy of and copyright Bentley Motors – September 2023

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Bentley’s Derby is chassis number B53AE (registration number AXB3), a four-door sports saloon delivered by dealer Jack Barclay to its first owner, Alex Mitchell of Tulliagan Castle in Scotland, early in 1934. He’s known to have kept the car until the war, However, records have been lost for the next owners, but at some time it made it across the Atlantic. It was discovered in a barn in East Otis, Massachusetts in 1968. Charles H. Wolfe of Lancaster, Philadelphia was recorded as the next owner in 1987 and he gave the car to Bentley Motors in 2004.

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