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Bentley Power generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) can be 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 seemed to be founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 January 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are marketed via franchised dealers worldwide, and as of November 2012, China was the greatest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small variety of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled on the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the 1 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 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 from your receivers in 1931 as well as subsequently sold it in order to Vickers plc in 1980 while Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Euphoria and Rolls-Royce grille design trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo that happen to be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and also 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 their own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum could possibly be a suitable replacement with regard to cast iron to fabricate brighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero machines 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 police officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine with the chassis. By December the motor was built and working. Delivery of the first cars was scheduled intended for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated and so the date was extended to help September 1921. The durability of the initial Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they also competed in hill climbs and also raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major celebration was the 1922 Indianapolis 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a altered road car driven by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the full 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after commencing in 19th position. The team was then rushed returning to England to compete from the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to 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 he won numerous Brooklands contests. Just a year afterwards he acquired the Bentley small business itself.The Bentley enterprise ended up being always underfunded, but inspired by this 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff in addition to Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financial Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd in 1922, which existed as the finance and investment vehicle. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business and its particular workforce. A financial reorganisation in the original Bentley company was performed and all existing creditors paid for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued by £1 each to just 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 became chairman. Barnato injected further cash to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture with July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial input, W. O. Bentley was able to design another generation of autos.

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The actual Bentley Boys were several 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 quite often had a military background. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories in 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 as well as produced five racing special offers, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised for the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available before it was totally developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Throughout March 1930, during the Blue Teach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the particular stakes on Rover as well as Rover Light Six, having raced and beaten Le Train Bleu for the 1st time, to better that record regarding his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six using 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 streets, and won.

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Barnato had his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside race against the Glowing blue Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with sleek fastback "Sportsman Coupé" through Gurney Nutting. Both cars became often known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is on a regular basis mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato referred to as it in memory associated with his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts the Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel towards the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway did not follow the same course.

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