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Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is usually a British company that types, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited was founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Jan 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are offered via franchised dealers around the world, and as of Nov 2012, China was the biggest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled on the Crewe factory, but a small number of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled with 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 add the Bentley 4½ Litre, Bentley Speed Six, Bentley R Type Ls, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the actual Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley in the receivers in 1931 and also subsequently sold it to help Vickers plc in 1980 any time Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative features, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille appearance trademarks, but not the rights on the Rolls-Royce name or logo that are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc as well as were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War When i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP cars in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was regarded, always wanted to design and build their own cars. At the DFP manufacturing plant, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement intended for cast iron to fabricate lighter weight pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero search engines during World War We.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited a car chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Electric motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps official, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 4 valves per cylinder engine with the chassis. By December the engine was built and running. Delivery of the 1st cars was scheduled regarding June 1920, but development took longer than estimated to ensure the date was extended in order to September 1921. The durability of the initial Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and in addition they competed in hill climbs in addition to raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major occasion was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a improved road car driven by simply works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the whole 500 miles and finished 13th through an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting off in 19th position. The team was then rushed time for England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to be able to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato ended up being nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car they won numerous Brooklands events. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley small business itself.The Bentley enterprise was always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans win by John Duff along with Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to finance Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as his finance and investment car or truck. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested much more than £100, 000, saving the business as well as workforce. A financial reorganisation from the original Bentley company was carried out and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued through £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their particular original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand-new shares giving him control in the company and he grew to be chairman. Barnato injected further cash in to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture in July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial enter, W. O. Bentley was able to develop another generation of vehicles.

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The particular Bentley Boys were a gaggle 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 quite often had a military qualifications. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories with the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 to be able to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed your 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City in addition to produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised to the 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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In March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover and Rover Light Six, having raced and outdone Le Train Bleu for once, to better that record in reference to his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against your train from Cannes to Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public roads, and won.

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Barnato owned his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon in the race against the Glowing blue 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 called the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato referred to as it in memory associated with his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts the particular Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel for the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred as the road and railway did not follow the same option.

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