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Bentley Power generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is usually a British company that styles, 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 January 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are sold via franchised dealers world-wide, and as of The fall of 2012, China was the biggest 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 manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the one day of Le Mans with 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 through the receivers in 1931 and subsequently sold it to be able to Vickers plc in 1980 whenever Rolls-Royce themselves went on the rocks. In 1998, Vickers sold it to help Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative features, the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grille design trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo which might be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc along with were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War We, 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 very own cars. At the DFP manufacturing area, in 1913, he noticed an lightweight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement with regard to cast iron to fabricate lighter weight pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero applications during World War 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 policeman, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine for that chassis. By December the powerplant was built and operating. Delivery of the 1st cars was scheduled intended for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated and so the date was extended to September 1921. The durability of the very first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and 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 chassis. They entered a altered road car driven by means of works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the total 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after beginning in 19th position. The team was then rushed here we are at England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference for you to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car this individual won numerous Brooklands backrounds. Just a year after he acquired the Bentley business itself.The Bentley enterprise seemed to be always underfunded, but inspired by the 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to finance Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd within 1922, which existed as his / her finance and investment car. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested well over £100, 000, saving the business and workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was accomplished and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued by £1 each to merely 1 shilling, or 5% or their original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the new shares giving him control with the company and he grew 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 development another generation of automobiles.

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The 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 often had a military history. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories at the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to be able to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley in Welwyn Garden City and produced five racing special deals, starting with Bentley Motorized inflator No. 1 which was optimised for the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available on the market before it was totally developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Throughout March 1930, during the Blue Educate Races, Woolf Barnato raised your stakes on Rover and its particular Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for initially, to better that record along with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on a bet of £100. He drove against the particular train from Cannes to Calais, then by ferry for you to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public motorways, and won.

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Barnato went his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside race against the Violet Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of your Speed Six with more efficient fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by simply Gurney Nutting. Both cars became generally known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is routinely mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato branded it in memory associated with his race. [19][20] A painting by means of Terence Cuneo depicts the Gurney Nutting coupé sporting along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway failed to follow the same path.

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