Litre Collection

4. 5 litre Bentley
The 4.5 litre Bentley

Tazio Nuvolari - D Type Auto-Union
Tazio Nuvolari, probably the finest driver seen in this period, on a D Type Auto-Union with 3-litre, twelve cylinder, 450 hp rear mounted engine

Poster advertising Vanden Plas Princess saloon car
Poster advertising the Vanden Plas Princess 3 litre saloon car

Bank holiday at Goodwood
A plug and spanner bank holiday at Goodwood. R. D. Poore in his 3.8 Alfa-Romeo and Leslie Johnson in the E-type 1 1/2 litre E.R.A. top the rise after St

Bentley Motors advertisement Date: 24th December 1930

French Grand Prix of 1921
The first road race to be won by an engine powered by a straight-eiggt engine was the French Grand Prix of 1921 in which J Murphy averaged 78.1 mph for 322 miles at Le Mans

JAGUAR 100
An early member of Britains renowned sports family, this is the S.S. 2.5 litre Jaguar 100, priced at just under a thousand pounds. Date: 1937

Triumph Gloria
This is the Triumph-Gloria two-litre Vitesse saloon. Date: 1936

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. A Fuel Maintenance specialist carrying out maintenance on a 3, 000 US Gallon (2498 Imp.Gallon, 11356 litre) under-wing tank. Date: circa 1960

Allard Palm Beach Mk. II sports car
Allard 3.4 litre Palm Beach Mk.II sports car. Date: 1956

Sunbeam car
3 litre Super Sports Sunbeam Convertible Date: circa 1925

1 litre Imperial German stoneware bierstein - WWI
1 litre Imperial German stoneware bierstein. It is decorated with text in blue glaze. with the words 1914-1918 Heeresgruppe Kronpr. Rupprecht Von Bayern, together with a Hansa Cross

Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder Mercedes-Benz
Hermann Lang on the twelve-cylinder, 490 bhp, 3 litre Mercedes-Benz with which in 1939 he made the fastest timed laps of four Grand Prix circuits with an astonishing peak of 117.5 mph in practice for

Gordon Russell racing in Bentley at Silverstone, Northants
Gordon Russell racing in an 8-litre Bentley Special at Silverstone, Northamptonshire. Date: 1982

Sunbeam 3 Litre Vintage Car, England. Date: 1920s

1936 6 litre Auto-Union
The 1936 6 litre Auto-Union Date: 1936

3 litre Peugeot
The 3 litre Peugeot

1934 single-seater Maserati
The 1934 single-seater Maserati with 2.9 litre straight-eight engine represented (together with the corresponding Alfa Romeo)

L Chiron at the wheel of the Type 51 Bugatti, an eight-cylinder, 2 litre car developing 160 bhp, winner of the 1931 ten-hour French Grand Prix at Montlhery with an average of 78.16 mph

Sir Henry Birken in the 1931 French Grand Prix at Pau
Sir Henry Birken (refreshing himself with an orange) in the 4.5-litre, four cylinder, 240 hp supercharged Bentley, four seater sports car, weighing two tons

Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery
The supercharged twelve-cylinder 2 litre Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery in 1925 at 69.7 mph for 621 miles. These cars would reach 134 mph with 190 hp available from the engine

Sir Henry Segrave on the Sunbeam at Brooklands
Sir Henry Segrave on the six-cylinder 105 hp 2 litre Sunbeam photographed at Brooklands before winning the 1923 French Grand Prix at an average of 75.3 mph for 496 miles at Tours Date: 1923

F Nazzaro - 1922 French Grand Prix
F Nazzaro on th 90 hp 2 litre six-cylinder Fiat with which he won the 1922 French Grand Prix at an average of 79.2 mph over 499 miles at Strasbourg

Singer Le Mans
Singer 1.5 litre Le Mans two- seater has indeed performed well on the Le Mans circuit, where sturdy build is as important as high performance. Date: 1936

Aston Martin Speed
The Aston Martin 2-litre Speed model - a fun car at L700+. Date: 1937

Bentley 3. 5 Litre
Bentley 3.5 litre sports tourer : very powerful and with superb performance - but for the price (L 1380) you could buy ten Austin Sevens ! Date: 1936

Riley Racing Car
The Riley two-litre racing car has had several successes, both with the factory team and independent racing driver Freddie Dixon. Date: 1936

M. G. SALOON
Medium-priced family saloon with sporty performance. Date: 1936

E. R. A. 1. 5 LITRE
English Racing Automobiles produce a truly British racing car - and successful, too, winning many races in its class (1500 cc). Date: 1936

Riley Falcon
Riley 1.5 litre Falcon saloon, Date: 1936

Morris Bullnose 1. 5 Litre Cowley 4-door Open Tourer
Morris Bullnose 1.5 Litre Cowley 4-door Open Tourer

Standing next to a Jaguar 3. 5 Litre 4-door Saloon
Standing alongside a Jaguar 3.5 Litre 4-door Saloon

Jaguar 3. 5 Litre 4-door Saloon
A magnificent Jaguar 3.5 Litre 4-door Saloon

Standard 8 - 1 Litre Saloon

Morris Cowley 1.5 Litre

Armstrong Siddeley
Two ladies (one seated on the running board) next to a 1.7 Litre Armstrong Siddeley

Beer-Drinking Contest
A brasserie on the Paris boulevards offers a prize to whoever can most rapidly drink a litre of beer through a straw

Heurigen Party, Vienna
A heurigen party in the garden of a suburban inn, Vienna, where the new years wine is drunk by the litre

Metric Series - Contents
Contents - a litre

ALVIS 4. 3 LITRE 1936
The Alvis 4.3 litre Vanden Plas two-door saloon, a discreetly elegant model combining power with handsome good looks

Champagne Liebig 4
Fermentation takes place first in the huge cuves, for a few days, then in 200-litre barrels in which the wine stays fermenting until June. card 4 of 6

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