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Bentley Power generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British company that styles, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that happen to be largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited seemed to be 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 Nov 2012, China was the biggest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small number of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are stated in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the twenty four hours of Le Mans in 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 Ls, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Ls Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley through the receivers in 1931 along with subsequently sold it for you to Vickers plc in 1980 whenever Rolls-Royce themselves went on the rocks. In 1998, Vickers sold it in order to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the car designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights for the Rolls-Royce name or logo which might 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 recognized, always wanted to design and build his own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement with regard to cast iron to fabricate lighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero engines during World War My partner and i.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited an auto chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps official, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 5 valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the serp was built and working. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled with regard to June 1920, but development took longer than estimated hence the date was extended in order to September 1921. The durability of the 1st Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and so they competed in hill climbs and raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major event was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized vehicles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a changed road car driven by means of works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the entire 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after commencing in 19th position. The team was then rushed here we are at England to compete inside the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to be able to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he / she won numerous Brooklands backgrounds. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by the 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to fund Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd throughout 1922, which existed as his / her finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested over £100, 000, saving the business and its workforce. A financial reorganisation with the original Bentley company was performed and all existing creditors paid off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued coming from £1 each to simply 1 shilling, or 5% or his or her original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the new shares giving him control on the company and he evolved into 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 design another generation of cars.

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The actual Bentley Boys were a group 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 frequently had a military background. 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 in order to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City as well as produced five racing specials, 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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Within March 1930, during the Blue Educate Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and defeated Le Train Bleu for the first time, to better that record regarding his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six using a bet of £100. He drove against this train from Cannes for you to Calais, then by ferry for you to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public motorways, and won.

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Barnato drove his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon within the race against the Glowing blue Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of your Speed Six with structured fastback "Sportsman Coupé" simply by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became called the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is routinely mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that competed the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato branded it in memory associated with his race. [19][20] A painting through Terence Cuneo depicts the actual Gurney Nutting coupé auto racing along a road parallel towards Blue Train, which scenario never occurred as the road and railway did not follow the same way.

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