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Bristol400

1947 – present United Kingdom passenger car 1 production year
Production1947 – present
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
Classpassenger car
Built487 units
Background

The Bristol 400 is a luxury car made by the Bristol Cars division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Manufactured from 1947 to 1950, it was the first model of car that the company made.

Text adapted from “Bristol 400” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

Chronology ledger

Dates with their meaning intact

Production chronology1947–open

Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.

rdw ↗1 year
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1948–1950

First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.

Netherlands RDW ↗3 years