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Bentley Magnetic motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that patterns, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a part of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited ended up being founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 The month of january 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are marketed via franchised dealers throughout the world, and as of Late 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled in the Crewe factory, but a small quantity of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled at the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are stated in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the one day of Le Mans within 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 Continental, 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 and subsequently sold it for you to Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went insolvent. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the automobile designs, model nameplates, production and administrative services, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights for the Rolls-Royce name or logo which are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc as well as 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 acknowledged, always wanted to design and build his own cars. At the DFP manufacturing facility, in 1913, he noticed an aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum may very well be a suitable replacement pertaining to cast iron to fabricate lighter weight pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero search engines during World War 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 Powerplant Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps policeman, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative four valves per cylinder engine to the chassis. By December the powerplant was built and running. Delivery of the first cars was scheduled intended for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated hence the date was extended to September 1921. The durability of the 1st Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they also competed in hill climbs as well as raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major function was the 1922 Indianapolis 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a improved road car driven simply by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto mechanic, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the full 500 miles and finished 13th with an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting off in 19th position. The team was then rushed here we are at England to compete inside the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference in order to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his initial Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he / she won numerous Brooklands races. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise ended up being always underfunded, but inspired by this 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financing Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as his finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested well over £100, 000, saving the business as well as workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was accomplished and all existing creditors paid off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to only 1 shilling, or 5% or their particular original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand new shares giving him control on the company and he evolved into chairman. Barnato injected further cash to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture throughout July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial suggestions, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of autos.

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Your Bentley Boys were several 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 backdrop. They kept the marque's reputation for good performance alive; Bentley was noted due to the four consecutive victories on the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed your 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley in Welwyn Garden City and produced five racing specials, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised for that Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model out there before it was fully developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Inside March 1930, during the Blue Prepare Races, Woolf Barnato raised your stakes on Rover and its particular Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for the very first time, to better that record in reference to his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six over a bet of £100. He drove against the particular train from Cannes for you to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public roads, and won.

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Barnato went his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon in the race against the Blue Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of any Speed Six with structured fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by simply Gurney Nutting. Both cars became known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is often mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato called it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting through Terence Cuneo depicts the particular Gurney Nutting coupé sporting along a road parallel towards Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway wouldn't follow the same option.

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