In January 1930 Rover claimed its Light Six had gone faster than the Le Train Bleu, one of the world's most luxurious trains, which ran from Cannes in the south of France to Calais in the north.
One evening at dinner, Bentley Boy Woolf Barnato said that was nothing special, and he could race the Blue Train, reach Calais, cross the English Channel and reach the Conservative Club in London before the train arrived in Calais. He succeeded with four minutes to spare. Here, Steve Cropley retraces the Bentley Boys' London haunts in the very car in which Barnato made the journey.
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Thank Steve
The Bentley looks absolutely superb. It has a real sense of occasion cruising in those London streets.
Er, no.
Not surprising