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Bentley Generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British company that styles, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited had been founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Present cards 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are distributed via franchised dealers around the world, 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 one day of Le Mans throughout 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.

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Iconic Bentley models are 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 your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley on the receivers in 1931 in addition to subsequently sold it to help Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went broke. In 1998, Vickers sold it in order to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative features, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille appearance trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc along with were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War When i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP automobiles in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was acknowledged, always wanted to design and build their own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum may be a suitable replacement for cast iron to fabricate brighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted 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 an automobile chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps policeman, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative several valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the serps was built and working. Delivery of the 1st cars was scheduled pertaining to June 1920, but development took longer than estimated so the date was extended to September 1921. The durability of the primary Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they also competed in hill climbs and raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major function was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized vehicles with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a revised road car driven through works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto mechanic, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the complete 500 miles and finished 13th by having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting up in 19th position. The team was then rushed to England to compete from the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to be able to his heavyweight boxer's size, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car they won numerous Brooklands backgrounds. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise seemed to be always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans win by John Duff along with Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financing Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as their finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested in excess of £100, 000, saving the business and its workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was carried out and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued from £1 each to just 1 shilling, or 5% or the original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand-new shares giving him control with the company and he evolved into chairman. Barnato injected further cash in to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture inside July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial input, W. O. Bentley was able to development another generation of autos.

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The actual Bentley Boys were a small grouping 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 history. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted for its four consecutive victories with the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to be able to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed your 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley in Welwyn Garden City and produced five racing special offers, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised with the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model in the marketplace before it was entirely developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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With March 1930, during the Blue Teach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the stakes on Rover as well as Rover Light Six, having raced and outdone Le Train Bleu for once, to better that record together with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six with a bet of £100. He drove against your train from Cannes for you to Calais, then by ferry to help Dover, and finally London, travelling on public freeways, and won.

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Barnato drove his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside race against the Azure Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with sleek fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became often 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 named it in memory connected with his race. [19][20] A painting simply by Terence Cuneo depicts this Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel for the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred as the road and railway would not follow the same way.

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