Which car company produced the Speed Six, famous for its race against the 'Blue Train', between 1926 and 1930?
Bentley Speed Six Bentley Speed Six The regular Bentley 6½ Litre and the high-performance Bentley Speed Six were rolling chassis in production from 1926 to 1930. The Speed Six, introduced in 1928, would become the most successful racing Bentley. Two Bentley Speed Sixes became known as the "Blue Train Bentleys" after their owner Woolf Barnato's involvement in the Blue Train Races of 1930. By 1924, Bentley decided to build a larger chassis than the 3 Litre, with a smoother, more powerful engine. The new chassis would be more suitable for the large, heavy limousine bodies that many of his customers were then putting
Bentley Speed Six Speed Six's engine produced at 3500 rpm. The Speed Six chassis was available to customers with wheelbases of , , and , with the 138 inch wheelbase being most popular. The Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police operated two saloon-bodied examples as patrol cars. In March 1930, Barnato raced against the Blue Train in a Speed Six with H. J. Mulliner saloon coachwork, reaching his club in London before the train was due in the station at Calais. It had generally been believed that the car in the race was a Gurney Nutting Sportsman Coupé, but the coupé