Haynes Bentley 4 1/2 Litre 1927 Onwards (All models, including 'Blower') Owners' Workshop Manual

“Designed And Built To Challenge An Aggressive French Shipbuilding Programme In The Late 1850s, When Commissioned The 40-gun Steam-powered Ironclad Hms Warrior Was The Largest Warship In The World. The Revolutionary Design Housed The Main Guns, 10 Boilers And Steam Engine Inside An Impregnable Armoured ‘box’ Or Citadel Made From 4½in Thick Wrought Iron Plates. Warrior Is The Only Surviving Example Of Britain’s ‘black Battlefleet’ – The 45 Iron Hulls Built For The Royal Navy Between 1861 And 1877. She Was Restored In The 1980s And Is Now On Public Display At Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. 160 pages The 4 1/2 litre Bentley is one of the most iconic pre-war cars, and the super charged 4 1/2 litre “blower” Bentley is today one of the most sought-after and most valuable cars for collectors.The “Bentley Boys” won several high-profiles races in Bentleys, and Woolf Barnato and Bernardo Rubin won with a 4 1/2 litre car in 1928. Five supercharged “Blower” Bentleys were built to compete at Le Mans, but the car’s Achilles Heel was its reliability, and it never won the 24-hour race.This Manual provides details of the 4 1/2 litre unsupercharged and “Blower” Bentley racing cars, detailing their period racing history, anatomy and engineering, and provides an insight into owning, maintaining, and running an example of this iconic card today. Illustrated with period photographs and design and engineering material, plus photographs of restored examples in use today".