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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Contracts. The sale of the car was in fact undertaken by four separate but inter-related contracts. These were: ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Contractual Description. The question that arises is whether there was a contractual description of the car in each of these contracts. The answer is ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The contract between SMRL and Mrs Brewer. The goods being sold by SMRL were described as: a "1930 Bentley Car" with the following details: ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Mr Hardiman had asked Mr Mann to issue the invoice with the description of the car being "1930 Bentley Speed Six". However, the invoice that he issued omit...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Moreover, the description in the invoice was clearly intended to be subject to the contractual warranty made by Mr Mann on both his and SMRL's behalf to Mr...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Thus, the description, in context, was intended to mean, and did mean, "a 1930 Speed Six Bentley Motor Car incorporating a 1930 Speed Six engine".</s>
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] The contract of sale between SMRL and Fortis. This described the car as "One 1930 Bentley Speed Six Car". This description was provided by Mr Mann and t...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] The hire purchase agreement. This was filled in by Mr Hardiman using the description of the car as a "1930 Bentley Speed Six" that had originated from Mr M...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] The sale of the car and the passing of property in the car from Mr James to SMRL. The description of the car was a 1930 "Bentley motor car" with the same r...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Contractual description. The classic test for determining whether a description of goods being sold is a contractual description creating an obligation ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Conclusion � contractual description. The description "One 1930 Bentley Speed Six Car" in the sale contract from SMRL to Fortis and in th...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Introduction. One of the principal difficulties in this case has been to identify how, for the purposes of section 9 of the Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Ac...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Mr Mann and SMRL's case. Mr Mann, supported by Mr Fenn's evidence about the BDC's system of classifying vintage Bentleys, insisted that a "Speed Six" Bentley ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] When pressed, both men accepted that a Speed Six car that incorporated such a chassis number should be supported by a continuous history ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Answer to Mr Mann's case. The BDC's limited definition of a Speed Six, or of any other vintage Bentley type, that was championed by Mr Fenn does ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] However, the BDC's method of describing a Speed Six car is not a sufficient method of describing the Speed Six car type for the purposes of a sale or bailment ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] All cars that started life as a Speed Six car are unique and are approximately eighty years old. Each surviving Speed Six has changed significantly over th...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Thus, it is a necessary, but not a sufficient, characteristic of a car that is described as a 1930 Speed Six that its original chassis number is to be found o...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Speed Sixes sold by description. The purpose of the statutory requirement that goods sold or bailed by to a consumer must confirm to their description ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Thus, to take this case, the general description "1930 Speed Six" was one which was capable of covering any car with an authentic Speed Six chassis what...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] The generic description of the car as a 'Speed Six car' was sufficient to describe either type of car. Thus, given the buyer's wishes that had been communicat...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Continuous history documentation. These considerations show why the continuous history documentation of a Speed Six is so important. In this case, the c...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Conclusion � sale by description. Thus, the description for the purposes of the implied term in all three contracts is to be considered t...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Mr Mann and SMRL's liability - conclusion. There can be no doubt, therefore, that Mr Mann, in relation to the warranty given to Mrs Brewer, that SMRL, ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The reasons why the car could no longer be described in this way may be summarised as follows: (1) The 1930 Speed Six engine ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The only accurate description that the car could have been provided with would have been one that explained in detail all four of these changed aspects of the ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Mr Mann's and SMRL's defence - conclusion. The only reason why Mr Mann persisted in describing the car as a 1930 Speed Six was because he, supported ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The difficulty with that approach is that it means that the car, although reconstructed with an engine which is a Standard 6�-litre engine in design and with a...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] It is, of course, for the BDC, other vintage car clubs and the DVLA to decide how they will categorise a vintage car for their own particular purposes. Those d...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Fortis' liability � bailment by description. It was contended on behalf of Fortis by its counsel Mr Brant that the bailment of the car to Mrs Brewer ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] It is factually incorrect to assert that Mrs Brewer provided the description of the car to Fortis. In fact, Mr Mann chose that description himself and provided...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Mr Brant also contended that it was not credible that Mrs Brewer had relied on the description "Bentley Speed Six car" when deciding to enter into the hire pu...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Clause 5.1 � prevention or exclusion of liability. Fortis contends that the term of the agreement that gives rise to the contractual description relied ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Mr Brant contended that this provision had the effect that the contractual description of the car as a "1930 Bentley Speed Six Car" was a "condition, warranty...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] However, contrary to Mr Brant's submission, clause 5.1 of the hire purchase agreement does not exclude the hire being by description. This is because the d...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The only way that clause 5.1 could be applicable would be as a means of excluding Fortis's liability arising from its breach of the implied term requiring the ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Thus, clause 5.1 does not prevent the contractual description taking effect nor does it exclude liability arising from a breach of an imp...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Overall conclusion � hire purchase agreement bailment by description. Mrs Brewer relied on a description within the hire purchase agreeme...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Overall conclusion - liability. Mr Mann was in breach of his contractual warranty provided to Mrs Brewer that the car was a Speed Six and that the engin...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Factual background. Mrs Brewer has potentially three remedies against Fortis arising from its breach of the implied term that the car should comply with...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] These remedies must be considered against the relevant contractual background. This is that Mrs Brewer had taken possession of the car on 7 June 2007 and s...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer immediately took legal advice and then notified Fortis of her discovery and that she wished to make a claim against Mr Mann based on what she consid...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Fortis did not respond to Mrs Brewer's request. Instead, by return in a notice dated 7 August 2008, it gave her notice terminating the agreement and requiring ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Mrs Brewis's right to reject. It was contended on behalf of Fortis that Mrs Brewer had lost the right to reject the car since clause 2 of the agreement ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] The first answer to Fortis's contention that Mrs Brewer has lost the right to reject is provided by section 13(1)(b) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 whi...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] The second answer to Fortis's contention is that the right to reject cannot be lost until the hirer, in this case Mrs Brewer, has had a reasonable opportun...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Fortis also contends that Mrs Brewer did not have the right to reject the car because she had purported to exercise that right on the grounds of misdesc...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] I reject this submission on the facts of this case. Although Mrs Brewer had fallen behind with her payments, she had the funds available to pay the arrears an...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Moreover, the submission that Mrs Brewer had lost the right to reject is irrelevant to her current claim. This is because she is claiming damages from F...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Conclusion � right to reject. Mrs Brewer had not accepted the car and if clause 2 of the agreement has the effect of her having to be presumed to have ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer claims damages arising from the breach of Mr Mann's contractual warranty from both Mr Mann and from SMRL and, in the case of S...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer's claim is for so-called reliance damages, being the losses incurred by an innocent party who has entered into a contract which has proved to be fu...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer's claim is similar to the claim which was held to be recoverable in Yeoman Credit Ltd v Odgers [15] with these words: ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Conclusion � Mrs Brewer's claims for damages. Mrs Brewer is entitled to both heads of damages as claimed by her and is also entitled to an indemnity from ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Fortis claims the outstanding arrears that had accrued before it purported to terminate the agreement and also damages to compensate it f...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer's response, which I accept and apply, successfully refutes Fortis's counterclaim on the following five cumulative grounds: ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Conclusion � Fortis's counterclaim. Fortis has no entitlement to counterclaim the arrears of hire outstanding at the date it purported to...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Mrs Brewer is entitled to repayment by Fortis of all hire payments that she has previously paid since she was entitled to rescind the contract and such ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] The final issue that I must decide is whether Mrs Brewer has to give credit for the use of the car in the period between her taking delivery of it and the dat...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Before considering these claims, it is first necessary to consider again the basis of Mrs Brewer's claim against each defendant against which these claims are...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] There might have been a basis for a claim for wear and tear, damage to the car during its use or for a share in any tangible benefit obtained from its u...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Conclusion � restitutionary counterclaims. It follows that no restitutionary claim arises and Mrs Brewer need not provide any off-set for her ...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Joinder of SMRL. During the trial, I ruled that SMRL could and should be joined as a third defendant. This was because: ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Joinder of SMRL to the third party proceedings. For the same reasons as have resulted in SMRL being joined as a party, it is fair and reasonable that ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Principal findings. The principal findings are as follows: (1) (a) Mr Sibson had inspected and measured the ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Overall conclusion. In the result, Mrs Brewer's claims succeed against each defendant, Fortis's counterclaim fails and Mrs Brewer is entitled to damages ag...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Appendix I</s>
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] The Case of Old Bentley Number One</s>
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] HUBBARD vs. MIDDLEBRIDGE SCIMITAR LIMITED</s>
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION Royal Courts of Justice, London. No. 90/MJ/2474 - 27th July 1990</s>
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] Before: MR. JUSTICE OTTON</s>
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] Transcribed from the Official Tape Recording by Cater Walsh & Co., 6 Jelleyman Close, Blakebrook, Kidderminster DY11 6AD. (Official Court Reporters a...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] MR. M. ROSEN, instructed by Carter Faber, London EC4Y 9AY, appeared on behalf of the plaintiff. MR. R. SLOWE, instructed by Dibb Clegg, London WC2A 1NE, appeared on be...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] JUDGEMENT (As Revised)</s>
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] MR. JUSTICE OTTON: In this action the plaintiff, Edward Hubbard, seeks specific performance of a contract entered into with the defendants, Middlebridge ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] The plaintiff agreed to sell this car for �10 million, in exchange for the assets of Middlebridge Scimitar Limited valued at �3.2  million, plus �6.8...
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<s>[INST] What is the main topic of the following response? [/INST] The plaintiff is 59 years of age and has had a passionate interest in fast and prestigious motor cars all his life. He has acquired a deep and detailed knowledge of vintag...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] The defendants are a company formed in May 1987. They are a subsidiary of Middlebridge Group Limited. The Company and the Group carry on the business of manufacture...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] The principal shareholder of the Group is Mr. Kohji Nakauchi, from whose name in Japanese the Group's name derives. He is clearly a wealthy industrialist ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] The managing director of the Group and the Company is Mr. William McCormack. He has a history of banking behind him and is considered to be the person who looks after ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] However, the principal character in this action is not the larger than life Edward Hubbard or the ambitious and thrusting Japanese speaking Dennis Nursey. It is two tons ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] It was produced for my inspection in Lincoln's Inn. It looked beautiful and the magic and sheer power of its engine evoked excitement and nostalgic memories of the pas...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Between 1921 and 1930 W.A. Bentley, the founder of Bentley Motor Cars, took a passionate interest in motor racing. To many, even today, motor racing in the 20s and ...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] They strove to be, and were, world beaters particularly on two circuits -- Le Mans and Brooklands.</s>
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] Origin</s>
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] The car, which was later to be known as Old Number One, started life when it was selected at random from the Standard Six production line in preparation as the Bentley...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] It was the second Speed Six to be built. It had a six cylinder, 6+ litre engine, with a non-detachable head in the form of a conventional internal combustible engine. ...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] It was fitted with a four seater Van den Plas open body. After the successes at Le Mans of the 3 litre and 4+ litre cars, much was expected of it. At Le Mans in 192...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] On 24th April 1929 the car was registered bearing the registration number MT 34484. The car that I saw bears this registration number today.</s>
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Racing History</s>
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] The racing history of the car began at Brooklands in the Double twelve race in 1929, so-called because the race was run in two successive twelve hour ...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] At page 264 of Mr. Hay's book there is a short description of the race as follows:</s>
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] "The Speed Six, driven by Birkin, was first away on the flagfall and apart from the problems with shifting ballast on the Clement Chausan 4� litre and the retiremen...
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<s>[INST] What event is described in the following response? [/INST] Some cruise! The speed was 73.62 miles per hour.</s>
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] The cars in those days were driven back to England through France, via Paris, and one can imagine the victorious scenes which greeted the cars on their route back. ...
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<s>[INST] Can you provide details about the activities mentioned in the response? [/INST] As Mr. Hay in his expert's report says,</s>
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] "It is important to realize that racing cars are invariably changed during their careers, to incorporate improvements  and modifications, and because of hard use and a...
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<s>[INST] What details can you share about the following response? [/INST] The plaintiff's experts, Mr. Hay and Mr. Guppy, with the aid of a remarkable series of photographs, the Bentley stripping records and service records, have been abl...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] Within a matter of weeks after participating in the Double Twelve race on 10th May, photographs taken in June 1929 show the Van den Plas body cut away for the driver's...
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<s>[INST] Who are the main participants in the following event? [/INST] A fortnight later, on 29th June, it was back at Brooklands for the 6 hours race. The back axle internals had been renewed along with the exhaust valves, and all the va...
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