This was one of the participants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1991, and is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.
It's the 1929 Bentley 4½ Litre of Russell Squires of Stalybridge and is chassis FB3315. It originally had a Weymann saloon body by Gurney Nutting, but was later rebuilt in the form shown above by Hoffman & Burton. A note in the programme of the event said this about the car:
162 1929 Bentley Tourer
Reg: UL 4357 4 cylinder 24.9 hp
(Russell Squires, Stalybridge)
Totally rebuilt in the 1970s by Bentley specialists
Hoffman & Burton, this car won the Daily Mirror
Trophy in 1984, and its class for the past six years.
Bertie the Bentley
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