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Car of the Month - November 2005
Bentley Mark VI, 1947, #B139BG
Cabriolet by Gebrueder Beutler (Switzerland)

 
The original specifications which Ernst Beutler-Küng did remember very clearly (though he was already in his 80ies when we did exchange letters) he kindly listed in a handwritten 2 pages document. In another letter he stated quite amused that only after decades he found the car's correct designation to be Mk VI - his drawings had noted Mk.4 (Mark 4) because someone had misread the Roman “VI” as a “IV” and translated that incorrect term into the Arabian figure "4". They had preferred to use Arabian figures at Gebrueder Beutler.

After only two years later this car returned to Gebrueder Beutler for a second body to be made. The owner wanted his Bentley to show a more modern appearance. Hence in 1949 Beutler - using as much as possible of the old structure underneath the panels - on the 1947 chassis did built a new drophead coupe that was more than reflecting the lines ‘en vogue’ then, it was a truly advanced styling.

When correspondence was checked that had been exchanged with that most kind gentleman (usually his letters started with the very old-fashioned and particularly polite term "Liebwerter Herr Rossfeldt...") I found he had informed about 2 Rolls-Royce having been subject to coachbuilder Gebrueder Beutler's work, too. No documents had survived. Ernst Beutler-Kueng did remember one was a Phantom II that was converted into a Hotel-bus ca. 1955-56; the chassis had been extended. The second had been a ground-up restoration of an early post-war Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.