Produced to celebrate a Bentley success at Le Mans in 1928, this menu sold at £440 in Buckinghamshire.
Top lot, at £3000, was one that offered three hardback booklets by RS Witchell focusing on successes enjoyed by Bentley cars at Le Mans in the years 1927-29. Also part of the lot were a programme for The British Double Hour Race of 1929 and a Bentley car badge.
A 24pp Bentley brochure called The Blue Riband of English Motor Racing – The Story of the International Tourist Trophy Race made £1600 and two copies of Bentley Plus Four, a 42pp souvenir of that year’s 24-hour Le Mans event, realised £1800.
The seven lots on offer at the April 7 sale also included a couple of special dinner menus with amusing illustrated covers, one of which, sold at £440, is shown here.
