Lot 187

London 2024

Personal Photograph Collection of W.O. Bentley (Vol 1)

The Age of Endeavour Collection

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£8,000 - £10,000 GBP  | Offered Without Reserve

United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom

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To be offered on Friday, 1 November 2024

34 × 36 cm

Presented in a British Racing Green Asprey Photo Album.

These annotated photographs, circa one hundred, detail his early life,

Premium apprentice at Doncaster, Great Northern Railway and his racing motorcycles, Quadrant, Rex and American Indian. The beginnings of Bentley & Bentley with the D.F.P, Aero engines for the Admiralty, very early photographs of the Bentley works at Oxgate Lane, Cricklewood and racing photographs from Le Mans, Brooklands and Newtownards and W.O.B. with the experimental 6.5 Litre in France.