Blower Supercharged Green from Number Five is a dark British racing green named after the supercharged Bentley of the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.
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The Blower Supercharged Green shade belongs to the family of British racing greens. It is dark and shifted slightly toward olive, so on the large surfaces of an interwar body it stays readable and does not slide into black, as dark greens easily do.
The Blower was created at the end of the 1920s from the four-and-a-half-liter Bentley. Amherst Villiers designed its supercharger and Henry Birkin pushed it through, even though W. O. Bentley himself rejected forced induction. The blower sits exposed in front of the radiator and it is the detail by which you recognize the car even in a blurred period photograph. The Blower never won Le Mans, where the more powerful Speed Six collected the victories, but Birkin's chase of the leading Mercedes in 1930 is among the best-known episodes of interwar racing. Only a few dozen surviving examples are left, and they are among the most expensive British automobiles of all.
It aims at builders of veteran and prewar machinery, where hitting a period tone tends to be hardest, because black and white photographs say nothing about color. It will also be used where a green is meant to be distinctly older than the postwar British shades. The subject is an interwar body, where the green ends at the exposed blower, the leather straps across the hood and the nickel-plated lamps, so only small, broken-up surfaces are left.
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