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Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that patterns, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which can be largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited ended up being founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Economy is shown 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are marketed via franchised dealers globally, and as of December 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small variety of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured 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 range from the Bentley 4½ Litre, Bentley Speed Six, Bentley R Type Ls, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and this Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from your receivers in 1931 and also subsequently sold it to Vickers plc in 1980 as soon as 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 amenities, the Spirit of Euphoria and Rolls-Royce grille form trademarks, but not the rights towards Rolls-Royce name or logo that are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc along with were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War I, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP vehicles 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 lightweight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement intended for cast iron to fabricate lighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero motors during World War My partner and 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 4 valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the serps was built and running. Delivery of the first cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated so the date was extended for you to September 1921. The durability of the initial Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they 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 vehicles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a altered road car driven by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the whole 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after beginning in 19th position. The team was then rushed back to England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to help his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his very first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car this individual won numerous Brooklands backrounds. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley small business itself.The Bentley enterprise had been always underfunded, but inspired by the particular 1924 Le Mans win by John Duff as well as Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financial Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd within 1922, which existed as his finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business and it is workforce. A financial reorganisation with the original Bentley company was performed and all existing creditors paid back for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued from £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the new shares giving him control from the company and he started to be chairman. Barnato injected further cash in to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture within July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial input, W. O. Bentley was able to develop another generation of automobiles.

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The actual Bentley Boys were a gaggle of British motoring enthusiasts in 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 sometimes had a military background. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories at the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to help 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City in addition to 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 in the marketplace before it was entirely developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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In March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover as well as Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for the very first time, to better that record regarding his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against your train from Cannes to be able to Calais, then by ferry for you to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won.

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Barnato had 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 your Speed Six with structured fastback "Sportsman Coupé" through Gurney Nutting. Both cars became often 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 named it in memory associated with his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway didn't follow the same path.

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