Park Ward remaining the most popular coachbuilder. Many cars were bodied in steel rather than the previous, more expensive, aluminium over ash frame construction. A Drophead 4¼ Litre was featured as James Bond's car in the 1983 movie Never Say Never Again. Bentley Continental Motorsport announced in March 1939 that the fixed head coupé designed by Paulin and built by Portout to the special order of André Embiricos is the prototype of a new Continental model in the Bentley range. The new production car would have high compression pistons and larger SU carburettors giving an extra output and its weight reduced from the standard car's by about or 3 cwt. The maximum speed was expected to be and fuel consumption at . "Bentley must be justifiably proud of doing with a straightforward, push-rod engine what other makers cannot approach with overhead camshafts and blowers." Famous first owners Woolf Barnato, racing driver & former Bentley chairman (B121AE, B2DG, B6GA, B121GP) Prince Bira, racing driver and Olympic sailor (B29GP) Sir Malcolm Campbell, nine times World Land Speed Record holder (B141AE, B206GA, B22GA) Billy Cotton, bandleader (B125DG) George Eyston, three time World Land Speed Record holder (B24DG, B82GA) E.R. Hall, racing driver and Winter Olympian (B35AE, B106GA, B216GA) Entered car in 1934, 1935 and 1936 TT races on Ards Circuit Raymond Mays, racing driver (B125DG, B24GA, B144LS) Robert Montgomery, actor (B63DK) Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist (B130BL) Bernard Rubin, racing driver (B109CW) Anthony J Crowley, fictional character (NIAT RUC) Racing The Derby Bentley was not intended to be used as a racing car, unlike the earlier, pre-Rolls-Royce, cars built by W.O. Bentley. However, some examples were used for competition at an international level, including: A 3½-Litre (later 4¼-Litre) raced by E.R. Hall in the RAC Tourist Trophy (TT) in Ulster in 1934, 1935 and 1936. It was the first competition car built at Rolls-Royce since the car built for Charles Rolls which he had driven to win the 1906 TT, and it was also their last. Hall also raced the 4¼-Litre car at Le Mans in 1950, becoming the first man to drive solo for the entire distance of the race. A 4¼-Litre with a streamlined-body by Pourtout of Paris for Greek racing driver A.M. Embiricos set a record of at Brooklands. The Embiricos car also raced at Le Mans in 1949, 1950 and 1951 becoming the