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Bentley Power generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British company that styles, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that are largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited ended up being founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Jan 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are distributed via franchised dealers throughout the world, and as of November 2012, China was the biggest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small quantity of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled on the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the 1 day of Le Mans inside 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.

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Iconic Bentley models add some Bentley 4½ Litre, Bentley Speed Six, Bentley R Type Continental, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the particular Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from your receivers in 1931 in addition to subsequently sold it in order to Vickers plc in 1980 as soon as Rolls-Royce themselves went broke. In 1998, Vickers sold it to help Volkswagen AG. The sale included the auto designs, model nameplates, production and administrative services, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille design trademarks, but not the rights on the Rolls-Royce name or logo that are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc in addition to were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War My spouse and i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP autos in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was regarded, always wanted to design and build his very own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an lightweight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum might be a suitable replacement intended for cast iron to fabricate brighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero search engines during World War When 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 specialist, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 4 valves per cylinder engine to the chassis. By December the serps was built and running. Delivery of the first cars was scheduled regarding June 1920, but development took longer than estimated to ensure the date was extended to be able 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 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized automobiles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a altered road car driven by simply works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the total 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting up in 19th position. The team was then rushed returning to England to compete from the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato seemed to be nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he won numerous Brooklands races. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley company itself.The Bentley enterprise seemed to be always underfunded, but inspired by the particular 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff as well as Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to fund Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd in 1922, which existed as his or her finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business and its particular workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was carried out and all existing creditors paid back for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued from £1 each to simply 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the completely new shares giving him control from the company and he grew to become chairman. Barnato injected further cash into your business: £35, 000 secured by debenture within July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial insight, W. O. Bentley was able to develop another generation of autos.

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The particular Bentley Boys were a small grouping 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 frequently had a military background. They kept the marque's reputation for top rated alive; Bentley was noted due to the four consecutive victories at the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to help 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley with Welwyn Garden City as well as produced five racing special deals, starting with Bentley Motorized inflator No. 1 which was optimised for the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available on the market before it was totally developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Throughout March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover and Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for initially, to better that record regarding his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six over a bet of £100. He drove against your train from Cannes for you to Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public freeways, and won.

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Barnato went his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside race against the Azure Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of any Speed Six with streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by simply Gurney Nutting. Both cars became generally known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that competed the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato referred to as it in memory involving his race. [19][20] A painting through Terence Cuneo depicts the Gurney Nutting coupé sporting along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred since the road and railway did not follow the same path.

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