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Bentley Magnetic motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is often a British company that models, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that happen to be 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 Jan 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are distributed via franchised dealers worldwide, and as of November 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled for the Crewe factory, but a small variety of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled at the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are stated in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the a day of Le Mans inside 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 Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley in the receivers in 1931 and subsequently sold it to help Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went insolvent. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the car designs, model nameplates, production and administrative features, the Spirit of Inspiration and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be 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 regarded, always wanted to design and build her own cars. At the DFP manufacturing plant, in 1913, he noticed an aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum may very well be a suitable replacement pertaining to cast iron to fabricate light 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 a motor vehicle chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Engine Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps policeman, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine to the chassis. By December the motor was built and jogging. Delivery of the primary cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated hence the date was extended to help September 1921. The durability of the first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they also competed in hill climbs as well as raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major celebration was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized automobiles with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a revised road car driven simply by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the whole 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting in 19th position. The team was then rushed back to England to compete within the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference for you to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato seemed to be nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he won numerous Brooklands contests. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise seemed to be always underfunded, but inspired by your 1924 Le Mans get by John Duff as well as Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to money Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd with 1922, which existed as his finance and investment car or truck. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested well over £100, 000, saving the business and workforce. A financial reorganisation from the original Bentley company was completed and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to simply 1 shilling, or 5% or the original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the completely new shares giving him control of the company and he evolved into chairman. Barnato injected further cash into the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture inside July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial suggestions, W. O. Bentley was able to develop another generation of cars and trucks.

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The actual Bentley Boys were a small grouping of British motoring enthusiasts that will 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 history. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted because of its four consecutive victories on the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed this 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City and also produced five racing special offers, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised for your Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model out there before it was completely developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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

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Barnato went 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 the Speed Six with efficient fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by simply Gurney Nutting. Both cars became referred to as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is often mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato known as it in memory involving his race. [19][20] A painting simply by Terence Cuneo depicts the actual Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel on the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway did not follow the same course.

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