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Bentley Engines Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is often a British company that models, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which can be largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited seemed to be founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 The month of january 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are sold via franchised dealers globally, and as of The fall of 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled for the Crewe factory, but a small volume 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 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 Ls, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from your receivers in 1931 in addition to subsequently sold it to Vickers plc in 1980 when Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it to be able to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the automobile designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War 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 or her own cars. At the DFP manufacturing facility, in 1913, he noticed an metal paperweight and thought that aluminum may be a suitable replacement regarding cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero search engines during World War My spouse and i.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited a vehicle chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Electric motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps specialist, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 5 valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the motor was built and working. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated hence the date was extended in order to September 1921. The durability of the primary Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and in addition they competed in hill climbs along with raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major function was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized autos with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a altered road car driven simply by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the whole 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after beginning in 19th position. The team was then rushed to England to compete within the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to be able to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato was nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his very first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car this individual won numerous Brooklands contests. Just a year afterwards he acquired the Bentley company itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff along with Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financial Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd within 1922, which existed as his finance and investment auto. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested much more than £100, 000, saving the business and it is workforce. A financial reorganisation with the original Bentley company was carried out and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to merely 1 shilling, or 5% or their original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand new shares giving him control with the company and he became chairman. Barnato injected further cash in to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture within July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial input, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of automobiles.

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The actual Bentley Boys were a gaggle of British motoring enthusiasts 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 qualifications. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories for the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed this 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley with Welwyn Garden City in addition to produced five racing special deals, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised to the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available on the market before it was thoroughly developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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With March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and beaten Le Train Bleu for initially, to better that record along with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against the actual train from Cannes to be able to Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public freeways, 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 any Speed Six with structured fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became referred to as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that competed the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory regarding his race. [19][20] A painting by simply Terence Cuneo depicts the actual Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel towards the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway wouldn't follow the same path.

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