Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that models, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited has been founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Present cards 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are marketed via franchised dealers around the world, and as of November 2012, China was the greatest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled in the Crewe factory, but a small variety of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are produced in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the 24 hours of Le Mans inside 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.
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Iconic Bentley models range from the Bentley 4½ Litre, Bentley Speed Six, Bentley R Type Continental, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Ls Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the actual Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley through the receivers in 1931 in addition to subsequently sold it to be able to Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went bankrupt. In 1998, Vickers sold it to be able to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille appearance trademarks, but not the rights towards the Rolls-Royce name or logo that happen to be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc as well as were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War We, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP automobiles in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was regarded, always wanted to design and build his or her own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an lightweight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum may be a suitable replacement for cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero engines during World War I.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited a motor vehicle chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 5 valves per cylinder engine to the chassis. By December the engine was built and jogging. Delivery of the initial cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated to ensure the date was extended to September 1921. The durability of the first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and in addition they competed in hill climbs along with raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major celebration was the 1922 Indianapolis 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a revised road car driven through works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the complete 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after commencing in 19th position. The team was then rushed time for England to compete within the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to be able to his heavyweight boxer's size, Captain Woolf Barnato has been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car this individual won numerous Brooklands events. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley small business itself.The Bentley enterprise had been always underfunded, but inspired by the 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff and Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to fund Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as the finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested well over £100, 000, saving the business and its particular workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was completed and all existing creditors paid off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued through £1 each to just 1 shilling, or 5% or their original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the completely new shares giving him control in the company and he grew to become chairman. Barnato injected further cash into your business: £35, 000 secured by debenture with July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial suggestions, W. O. Bentley was able to create another generation of automobiles.
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Your Bentley Boys were a group of British motoring enthusiasts in which included Woolf Barnato, Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin, steeple chaser George Duller, aviator Glen Kidston, automotive journalist S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis, and Dr Dudley Benjafield. The Bentley Boys, favored Bentley cars. Many were independently wealthy and quite often had a military history. They kept the marque's reputation for good performance alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories on the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley in Welwyn Garden City and produced five racing deals, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised to the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available before it was entirely developed. As a result, it was unreliable.
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Inside March 1930, during the Blue Teach Races, Woolf Barnato raised your stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for the first time, to better that record along with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on a bet of £100. He drove against the actual train from Cannes in order to Calais, then by ferry to be able to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won.
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Barnato driven his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon in the race against the Azure Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with structured fastback "Sportsman Coupé" simply by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became generally known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato branded it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting by simply Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel towards Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway didn't follow the same route.
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