LAGONDA M45 RAPIDE - Stanley Mann Racing Ltd

FROM THE SHOWROOM OF

 

STANLEY MANN RACING LTD

The Fruit Farm, Common Lane, Radlett, Herts, WD7 8PW

Telephone: 01923 52505  Fax: 01923 853496

e-mail: stanley@stanleymann.com

Opening Hours: 8:30am to 6:30pm Mon - Fri

Weekends By Appointment

 

LAGONDA  M45 RAPIDE

Registration Number: BYT 111    Chassis Number: Z11399    Engine Number: 9567
Price: £250000

" I’ve got a four and a half litre Lagonda at the moment and she’s pretty good on speed" Ralph Richardson interviewed in 1936 The Lagonda M45 Rapide with the superb straight six Meadows 4.5 Litre engine was one of the most stylish tourers of the late 1930s. We were delighted to buy this. Still sporting her original T9 body in excellent order and fresh from long term ownership this M45 Rapide has its original build details on file, showing it leaving the factory in July 1935 and being purchased by its second owner, a motoring enthusiast and lover of all wheeled and winged objects in 1936. This was a young chap named Ralph Richardson, better known as the actor Sir Ralph Richardson. He enjoyed the car so much it was driven by his friend Sir Laurence Olivier in a film in which they both starred with screen siren Merle Oberon called "The Divorce Of Lady X". That film, made in the new "glorious technicolour" and now viewable by the wonders of YouTube, shows this Lagonda in its original silver livery, painted thus to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George Vth.

1923 BENTLEY 3/4½ ltr SPEED MODEL - STANLEY MANN RACING LTD

When I was a child one of my favorite hobbies was building Airfix kits of planes and ships,but my all time favorite was a kit of a Bentley similar to our choice of Classic of the Day, It also transpires that the kit was bought after after I showed great interest in an exhibit at a local carnivalowned at the time by my fathers boss,and if memory serves me right was loaned to Pembroke Motor Museum when the museum was in Pembroke Dock.

Todays dealer is

1923 BENTLEY 3/4½ ltr SPEED MODEL

  (THE LIGHTWEIGHT BENTLEY)

 

You are looking at a Vintage Bentley that not only encompasses that enthusiasm, camaraderie, and tremendous spirit that has prevailed within the Bentley Driver’s Club from day one, but also one of the fastest Vintage Bentleys in the world.
The website www.thelightweightbentley.com tells the remarkable and outrageous story of this car, but in short it’s skimpier than a supermodel’s nightie and has a 0-60 time of 6 seconds. Superbly engineered and weighing in at 16.75 cwt a - little under half the weight of a standard 3 Litre Bentley -she is ideal for racing, sprinting or fast touring.
Huge, huge, huge Vintage Bentley fun, or as you whippersnappers in textland all seem to say OMG LOL. We just use the old fashioned expression which I can’t print here.
Come and talk Bentleys with us. 

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Automobile A-Z of Cars ofthe1920's

3-litre. (1919-29) 1622 produced in various sports,tourer and enclosed styles. Chassis prices (1922)  £1050, (1928) £895,

S4 OHC 2996cc, four valves per cylinder, twin magneto ignition cone clutch, separate four speed gearbox with righthand change, spiral bevel axle, semi elliptic suspension. Initially two wheel brakes but four for 1924

Famous model with different colour radiator badge depending on type :

Red Label - Short Chassis Speed Model

Blue Label - Early Short then Long Chassis suitable for formal coachwork

Green Label - Denoting one of approximately eighteen 100mph types. 80mm bore and a very long 149mm stroke on an engine derived from 1914 GP ideas give great lugging ability and a low Treasury Rating of 15.9hp when in reality a minimum of 70bhp was developed. 

All cars had a five year guarantee. Examples won at L Mans in 1924 &1927

Nick Baldwin

1997 The Automobile A-Z of Cars of the 1920's

MBI Publishing

ISBN 978-1-906133-24-5