Bentley Blower vs Steam Train

Bentleys Blowers were the Bugatti Chiron Super Sports of their day: enormous dark green monsters with a supercharger hung from the front like a big boosty beard. Good for 240bhp in race trim, the Blowers set record speeds at Le Mans and Brooklands, and cemented Bentleys reputation as a motorsport heavyweight. Literally. But racing other cars wasnt enough for Bentley Company chairman Woolf Barnato (great name) decided to race a roadgoing Speed Six against a luxury continental train, all the way from the French Riviera to London. And the Bentley won So, when we heard Oxfordshires Little Car Company was building a totally roadlegal 85 scale replica of a Blower, complete with 25 horsepower that gave us an idea. A miniature Bentley, versus a tiny train, in a centurylate rematch. Tallyho Join Top Gears Ollie Kew for an indepth tour and test drive as the shrunken Blower takes on a ninetonne train from the Romney Hythe Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England. Sub