Bentley Magnetic motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is usually a British company that types, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that happen to 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 The month of january 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are available via franchised dealers worldwide, and as of December 2012, China was the biggest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small amount of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are stated in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the a day of Le Mans in 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 Ls Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from the receivers in 1931 in addition to subsequently sold it in order to Vickers plc in 1980 when Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it for you to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the car designs, model nameplates, production and administrative amenities, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille condition trademarks, but not the rights for the Rolls-Royce name or logo that happen to be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War We, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP automobiles in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was acknowledged, always wanted to design and build his very own cars. At the DFP manufacturer, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement pertaining to cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted 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 Electric motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 5 valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the powerplant was built and working. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled intended for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated hence the date was extended to be able to September 1921. The durability of the first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they competed in hill climbs and also raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major celebration was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized automobiles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a changed road car driven through works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the whole 500 miles and finished 13th with the average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting up in 19th position. The team was then rushed returning to England to compete within the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference for you to his heavyweight boxer's prominence, Captain Woolf Barnato has been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his very first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he won numerous Brooklands backgrounds. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley company itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by this 1924 Le Mans get by John Duff as well as Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to money Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd throughout 1922, which existed as his or her finance and investment car. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested more than £100, 000, saving the business as well as workforce. A financial reorganisation from the original Bentley company was executed and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued by £1 each to simply 1 shilling, or 5% or the original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand-new shares giving him control in the company and he grew to be chairman. Barnato injected further cash in the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture in July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial insight, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of autos.
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The particular Bentley Boys were a gaggle 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 sometimes had a military qualifications. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories with the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 to be able to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley from Welwyn Garden City as well as produced five racing special offers, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised for that Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model in the marketplace before it was fully developed. As a result, it was unreliable.
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Throughout March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the actual stakes on Rover and its particular Rover Light Six, having raced and usual Le Train Bleu for the first time, to better that record together with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six using a bet of £100. He drove against the train from Cannes to help Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public motorways, and won.
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Barnato owned his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon inside race against the Orange Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of your Speed Six with efficient fastback "Sportsman Coupé" simply by Gurney Nutting. Both cars became called the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is routinely mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato known as it in memory regarding his race. [19][20] A painting by means of Terence Cuneo depicts this Gurney Nutting coupé rushing along a road parallel towards the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway did not follow the same path.
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