Bentley Motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that models, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that happen to be largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary 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 offered via franchised dealers worldwide, and as of Late 2012, China was the largest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled for the Crewe factory, but a small amount of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled at the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the a day of Le Mans within 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 Continental Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from the receivers in 1931 as well as subsequently sold it to help Vickers plc in 1980 any time Rolls-Royce themselves went on the rocks. In 1998, Vickers sold it in order to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the auto designs, model nameplates, production and administrative amenities, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille form trademarks, but not the rights towards Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc along with were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War When i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP vehicles in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was regarded, always wanted to design and build his own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an light weight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum may be a suitable replacement intended for cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero motors during World War We.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 officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine for your chassis. By December the powerplant was built and jogging. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled with regard to June 1920, but development took longer than estimated so the date was extended for you to September 1921. The durability of the very first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they also competed in hill climbs and also raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major affair was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing framework. They entered a improved road car driven by simply works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding repair shop, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the total 500 miles and finished 13th through an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting in 19th position. The team was then rushed time for England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference in order to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his 1st Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car they won numerous Brooklands events. Just a year later he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise was always underfunded, but inspired by the particular 1924 Le Mans earn by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to finance Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as the finance and investment auto. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested much more than £100, 000, saving the business and it is workforce. A financial reorganisation with the original Bentley company was executed and all existing creditors paid back for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued coming from £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the brand-new shares giving him control with the company and he became chairman. Barnato injected further cash to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture in July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial enter, W. O. Bentley was able to development another generation of autos.
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This Bentley Boys were a group of 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 infrequently had a military qualifications. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories with the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed this 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley at Welwyn Garden City in addition to produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Motorized inflator No. 1 which was optimised for that Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model on the market before it was totally developed. As a result, it was unreliable.
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Inside March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the 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 using a bet of £100. He drove against the train from Cannes to be able to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public roads, and won.
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Barnato drove his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon within the race against the Blue Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of an Speed Six with sleek fastback "Sportsman Coupé" through 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 ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato branded it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts the particular Gurney Nutting coupé sporting along a road parallel for the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway wouldn't follow the same route.
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