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Bentley Generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that types, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which are largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited has been founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Jan 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are offered via franchised dealers throughout the world, and as of November 2012, China was the greatest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled on the Crewe factory, but a small number of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled with the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are produced in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the 1 day of Le Mans within 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 Ls Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley on the receivers in 1931 and also subsequently sold it in order to Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went insolvent. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the auto designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille form trademarks, but not the rights towards 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 cars and trucks in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was known, always wanted to design and build his very own cars. At the DFP manufacturing facility, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement regarding cast iron to fabricate lighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero engines during World War When 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 4 valves per cylinder engine for your chassis. By December the engine was built and jogging. Delivery of the first cars was scheduled pertaining to June 1920, but development took longer than estimated and so the date was extended to be able 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 affair was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars and trucks with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a modified road car driven by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the full 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting up in 19th position. The team was then rushed here we are at England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference for you to his heavyweight boxer's size, Captain Woolf Barnato has been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car this individual won numerous Brooklands events. Just a year later on he acquired the Bentley company itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by the particular 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff and Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to money Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd within 1922, which existed as their finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business and its workforce. A financial reorganisation from the original Bentley company was executed and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to merely 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the fresh shares giving him control on the company and he grew to become chairman. Barnato injected further cash in the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture with July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial suggestions, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of cars and trucks.

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The particular Bentley Boys were several British motoring enthusiasts of 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 infrequently had a military backdrop. They kept the marque's reputation for good performance alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City and produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Motorized inflator No. 1 which was optimised for your 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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Within March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised this stakes on Rover and Rover Light Six, having raced and defeated Le Train Bleu for the 1st time, to better that record together with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on a bet of £100. He drove against your train from Cannes in order to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won.

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Barnato drove his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon within the race against the Orange Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with sleek fastback "Sportsman Coupé" simply by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became often known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is routinely mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato known as it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting simply by Terence Cuneo depicts the Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway failed to follow the same way.

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