Bentley Mark VI

The Bentley Mark VI was produced from 1946 to 1952 and was the first post-war luxury car from Bentley. Its four-door standard steel sports saloon was also the first car from Rolls-Royce with all-steel coachwork and the first complete car assembled and finished at the Rolls-Royce factory. Executive W. A. Robotham had negotiated with the Pressed Steel Company in 1944 for a general-purpose body, while chassis continued to go to independent coachbuilders that built saloons and drophead coupes; the most sought after of these today are the 241 cars by H. J. Mulliner. The shorter chassis and engine were a variant of the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith and, with the same body, became the Silver Dawn of 1949. A boot about twice the size, added in 1952, produced the R Type.