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Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is often a British company that patterns, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that are largely hand-built. It is a part 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 worldwide, and as of December 2012, China was the major market.Most Bentley cars are assembled at the Crewe factory, but a small amount of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled on the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the twenty four hours of Le Mans throughout 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.

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Iconic Bentley models include 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 particular Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from the receivers in 1931 and subsequently sold it to Vickers plc in 1980 when Rolls-Royce themselves went on the rocks. In 1998, Vickers sold it to help Volkswagen AG. The sale included the vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative features, the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grille appearance trademarks, but not the rights towards Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc in addition to were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War When i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP vehicles in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was known, always wanted to design and build their own cars. At the DFP manufacturing facility, in 1913, he noticed an metal paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement for cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero machines during World War When i.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited an automobile chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Generator Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 4 valves per cylinder engine for your chassis. By December the motor was built and managing. Delivery of the initial cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated to ensure the date was extended to help September 1921. The durability of the first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim plus they competed in hill climbs and also raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major function was the 1922 Indianapolis 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars and trucks with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a revised road car driven by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the entire 500 miles and finished 13th with an average speed of 74. 95 mph after beginning in 19th position. The team was then rushed to England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference for you to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato ended up being nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his initial Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car they won numerous Brooklands races. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley enterprise itself.The Bentley enterprise was always underfunded, but inspired by the particular 1924 Le Mans acquire by John Duff in addition to Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to fund Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd with 1922, which existed as his finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested in excess of £100, 000, saving the business and workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was completed and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued through £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand new shares giving him control on the company and he grew to become chairman. Barnato injected further cash to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture with July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial insight, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of vehicles.

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The particular Bentley Boys were a group of British motoring enthusiasts that 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 frequently had a military qualifications. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories for the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 in order to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley on Welwyn Garden City and also produced five racing specials, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised for that Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model out there before it was thoroughly developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Within March 1930, during the Blue Teach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the particular stakes on Rover as well as Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for initially, to better that record in reference to his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against the particular train from Cannes to be able to Calais, then by ferry to be able to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public roads, and won.

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Barnato had his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside the race against the Violet Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of your Speed Six with streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupé" 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 ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato called it in memory involving his race. [19][20] A painting by simply Terence Cuneo depicts this Gurney Nutting coupé sporting along a road parallel towards the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway would not follow the same way.

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