Look at the jaunty insouciance on Fred Brodribb’s face.
Just love this shot.
The navigator isn’t so keen on photography it seems. I’ve seen plenty of Fuck-Off! looks in my time, and that, my friends is one of them.
Fred is feeling pretty good about life at this point of the 1926 1,000 mile RACV Alpine Trial in Canberra. He and his buddy had the event in-the- bag, but then arrived early at a control in Victoria on the run home, and copped a penalty which dropped them well back among the riff-raff.
Very much my kind of Bentley, #1226 is a rare 100 Supersports clad in lovely James Flood coachwork.
Brodribb Bros, of 372 St Kilda Road, Melbourne were significant Bentley importers and dealers with Fred active in building the marque through motorsport in the twenties.
Brodribbs were wiped out in the Great Depression, along with Bentley in its original form.
This car lived in Australia from 1925 to 1958, then had stints in New Zealand and the United States before ‘arriving home’ in 1989, it now lives in Perth.
This most imposing, sporting Bentley is possibly out front of the Canberra Hotel.
Our fearless leaders moved to the capital in 1927, no doubt the joint was pretty low-rent until post-war.
Credits…
National Archives of Australia, ‘Vintage Bentleys in Australia’ by Hay, Watson, Schudmak and Johns
Finito…
primotipo... 
david Ekberg now owns this car.
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Now back in Melbourne , owned by David Ekberg.
I believe it has been sold recently from WA to parts unknown.
Navigator looks like a relative of Mahatma Gandhi!