Bentley To Create 12 Continuation Versions Of The 1929 Speed Six That Won Le Mans | Carscoops carscoops
twice, in 1929 and 1930, at the hands of Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, and Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin.
An improved version of the 1926 6½ Litre Bentley, the Speed Six was developed as a result of W.O. Bentley’s conviction that displacement was a better route to power than the supercharging of the Bentley 4½-liter engineIn base form, the engine had a Smiths five-jet carb, twin magnetos, and a compression ratio of 4.4:1. That allowed it to deliver 147 hp at 3,500 rpm.was introduced in 1928 and the engine was improved to make 180 hp .
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