Sir,
\nYour column “A Remarkable Bentley” in the January issue is a misnomer. It should be “A Remarkable Man” because Bill Hamilton is just that.<\/p>\n
Your concluding paragraph is, I am quite sure, wrong. The Hamilton Bentley was around these parts throughout the 1930s and was easily identified when on the road (shingle, of course), so the legend has it, as a black blurred object preceding a vast cloud of dust by a good half-mile. Your informant about a 4 1\/2 coming here after the war must have confused the Hamilton car with Lieutenant-Commander Tunnicliffe’s much later model 4 1\/2 which was around Auckland in the late 1940s and had the dubious distinction of demolishing a row of verandah posts on a very wet night with but superficial damage to itself.<\/p>\n
I enclose a photo of the Hamilton car taken by its present owner some 13 years ago in the company of the former DPA-231, the Light Sports Railton which has been in New Zealand since 1950.<\/p>\n
R.B. Shand.
\nS. Canterbury, NZ. <\/p>\n
[See later “Cars In Books” for present whereabouts of the Hamilton Bentley\u2014Ed].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167],"issue_decade":[121607],"issue_year":[121650],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225429,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/52392\/revisions\/225429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52392"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=52392"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=52392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}