Birtles and his Bean completed the fastest Australian cross-continent car journey, and the first London to Melbourne journey, a record which stood for almost 30 years.
Capitalising on the short-lived industrial prosperity of the early 1920s, Bean Cars was one company to commission Birtles as a promoter.
Based in Worcestershire and Staffordshire, this small British motor car manufacturer aimed to produce and market affordable passenger vehicles to rival Ford’s popular ‘Model T’.
The famous partnership with Birtles…
the "Sundowner" is a Bean, driven by Birtles, and was famous for crossing Australia in 1926, and London to Melbourne in 1927
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