Bentley Magnetic motors Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is often a British company that patterns, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that are largely hand-built. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. Now based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited seemed to be founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 The month of january 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are offered via franchised dealers worldwide, and as of November 2012, China was the greatest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled at the Crewe factory, but a small volume of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled for the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are produced in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the twenty four hours of Le Mans inside 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 2003.
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Iconic Bentley models are the Bentley 4½ Litre, Bentley Speed Six, Bentley R Type Continental, Bentley Turbo R, and Bentley Arnage. As of 2015, Bentley produce the Ls Flying Spur, Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga and the particular Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from your receivers in 1931 and subsequently sold it in order to Vickers plc in 1980 any time Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it to be able to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the car designs, model nameplates, production and administrative facilities, the Spirit of Fervor and Rolls-Royce grille appearance trademarks, but not the rights towards Rolls-Royce name or logo which can 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 identified, always wanted to design and build his own cars. At the DFP manufacturing plant, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that aluminum might be a suitable replacement regarding cast iron to fabricate brighter 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 vehicle chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps specialist, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine to the chassis. By December the serp was built and working. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated so the date was extended in order to September 1921. The durability of the first Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and in addition they competed in hill climbs and also raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major event was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized automobiles 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 full 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting up in 19th position. The team was then rushed back to England to compete in the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Chief Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he won numerous Brooklands events. Just a year later on he acquired the Bentley small business itself.The Bentley enterprise seemed to be always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff and Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to fund Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as their finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested over £100, 000, saving the business and its particular workforce. A financial reorganisation from the original Bentley company was carried out and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to simply 1 shilling, or 5% or their own original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the completely new shares giving him control on the company and he became chairman. Barnato injected further cash in the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture inside July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial insight, W. O. Bentley was able to create another generation of automobiles.
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The actual Bentley Boys were a gaggle of 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 often had a military background. They kept the marque's reputation for high end alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories with the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 to help 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed your 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley in Welwyn Garden City as well as produced five racing special offers, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised for that Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model on the market before it was fully developed. As a result, it was unreliable.
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Inside March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the particular stakes on Rover as well as Rover Light Six, having raced and usual 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 for you to Calais, then by ferry to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public freeways, and won.
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Barnato went his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon in the race against the Violet Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of your Speed Six with streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by simply Gurney Nutting. Both cars became often known as the "Blue Train Bentleys"; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to to be, the car that ran the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato referred to as it in memory connected with his race. [19][20] A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts the actual Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because the road and railway wouldn't follow the same course.
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