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Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is 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 has been founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Present cards 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are sold via franchised dealers around the world, and as of The fall of 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled on the Crewe factory, but a small amount of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in 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 add 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 your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley in the receivers in 1931 as well as subsequently sold it to be able to Vickers plc in 1980 any time Rolls-Royce themselves went bankrupt. 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 Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights on 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 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 identified, always wanted to design and build his or her own cars. At the DFP manufacturing area, in 1913, he noticed an aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum might be a suitable replacement intended for cast iron to fabricate lighter 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 car chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Electric motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps official, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative several valves per cylinder engine for your chassis. By December the serp was built and jogging. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled pertaining to June 1920, but development took longer than estimated therefore the date was extended for you to September 1921. The durability of the primary Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and so they competed in hill climbs along with raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major occasion was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized vehicles with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a modified road car driven by simply works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto mechanic, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the full 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after beginning in 19th position. The team was then rushed to England to compete from the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to his heavyweight boxer's stature, 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 small business itself.The Bentley enterprise had been always underfunded, but inspired by this 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to finance Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd throughout 1922, which existed as the finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business and it is workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was accomplished and all existing creditors paid off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued by £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the completely new shares giving him control of the company and he started to be chairman. Barnato injected further cash in to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture with July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial insight, W. O. Bentley was able to development another generation of vehicles.

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The Bentley Boys were a small grouping 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 backdrop. They kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 in order to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed your 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City and also produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised with the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model on the market before it was entirely developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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With March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised this stakes on Rover and Rover Light Six, having raced and usual Le Train Bleu for the 1st time, to better that record along with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six with a bet of £100. He drove against the train from Cannes to help Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public motorways, and won.

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Barnato owned his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside the race against the Orange Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of an Speed Six with sleek fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is frequently mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory connected with his race. [19][20] A painting by means of Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé rushing along a road parallel on the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred since the road and railway did not follow the same path.

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