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Bentley Generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that types, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars which might be largely hand-built. It is a additional of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited was founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 January 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are marketed via franchised dealers throughout the world, and as of Late 2012, China was the most significant market.Most Bentley cars are assembled with the Crewe factory, but a small number of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are produced in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the 1 day of Le Mans with 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.

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Iconic Bentley models include 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 actual Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley through the receivers in 1931 along with subsequently sold it to be able to Vickers plc in 1980 any time Rolls-Royce themselves went broke. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative establishments, the Spirit of Joyfulness and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights on the Rolls-Royce name or logo which are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc along with were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War My spouse and i, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP cars and trucks in Cricklewood, North London, but W. O, as Walter was known, always wanted to design and build their own cars. At the DFP manufacturing plant, in 1913, he noticed an lightweight aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum might be a suitable replacement for cast iron to fabricate brighter pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were fitted to Sopwith Camel aero search engines during World War We.In August 1919, W. O. registered Bentley Motors Ltd. and in October he exhibited an automobile chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Engine Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps officer, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative four valves per cylinder engine for the chassis. By December the motor was built and jogging. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled regarding June 1920, but development took longer than estimated to ensure the date was extended for you to September 1921. The durability of the very first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and in addition they competed in hill climbs in addition to raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major event was the 1922 Indianapolis 500, a race, dominated by specialized cars with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a revised road car driven simply by works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding auto mechanic, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the complete 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 from the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference in order to his heavyweight boxer's size, 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 backgrounds. Just a year in the future he acquired the Bentley business itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans acquire by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to money Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd within 1922, which existed as his / her finance and investment car or truck. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested over £100, 000, saving the business and it is workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was performed and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued coming from £1 each to simply just 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the fresh shares giving him control of the company and he grew to become chairman. Barnato injected further cash into your business: £35, 000 secured by debenture inside July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial input, W. O. Bentley was able to style another generation of cars and trucks.

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The particular Bentley Boys were a small grouping 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 backdrop. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted due to the four consecutive victories at the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the actual 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley at Welwyn Garden City along with produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Blowing apparatus No. 1 which was optimised with the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model in the marketplace before it was thoroughly developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Within March 1930, during the Blue Teach Races, Woolf Barnato raised this stakes on Rover and its particular Rover Light Six, having raced and outdone Le Train Bleu for the 1st time, to better that record in reference to his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against the actual train from Cannes for you to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won.

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Barnato driven his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon from the race against the Azure Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of the Speed Six with efficient fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by means of Gurney Nutting. Both cars became referred to as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is often mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory connected with his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé race along a road parallel towards Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because road and railway didn't follow the same route.

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