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Bentley Engines Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is really a British company that patterns, develops, and manufactures luxury motorcars that are 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 Economy is shown 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are available via franchised dealers around the world, and as of December 2012, China was the major market.Most Bentley cars are assembled at the Crewe factory, but a small volume of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled on the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are manufactured in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the one day of Le Mans throughout 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 the particular Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley from the receivers in 1931 as well as subsequently sold it to Vickers plc in 1980 whenever Rolls-Royce themselves went belly up. In 1998, Vickers sold it for you to Volkswagen AG. The sale included your vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative services, the Spirit of Joyfulness and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights for the Rolls-Royce name or logo which are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and also were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War My partner and i, 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 or her own cars. At the DFP manufacturer, in 1913, he noticed an metal paperweight and thought that aluminum might be a suitable replacement regarding cast iron to fabricate light pistons. The first Bentley aluminum pistons were suited to Sopwith Camel aero applications during World War We.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 policeman, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative some valves per cylinder engine for your 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 to help 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 affair was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized vehicles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a altered road car driven through works driver, Douglas Hawkes, accompanied by riding technician, H. S. "Bertie" Browning. Hawkes completed the full 500 miles and finished 13th having an average speed of 74. 95 mph after starting off in 19th position. The team was then rushed back to England to compete inside 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference to his heavyweight boxer's stature, Captain Woolf Barnato was nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car he or she won numerous Brooklands contests. Just a year afterwards he acquired the Bentley organization itself.The Bentley enterprise has been always underfunded, but inspired by the actual 1924 Le Mans get by John Duff in addition to Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to finance Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as his / her finance and investment car or truck. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested over £100, 000, saving the business and its workforce. A financial reorganisation of the original Bentley company was executed and all existing creditors payed off for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued via £1 each to only 1 shilling, or 5% or their particular original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the new shares giving him control on the company and he became chairman. Barnato injected further cash to the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture within July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial enter, W. O. Bentley was able to create another generation of cars.

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This 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 quite often had a military background. They kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive; Bentley was noted for the four consecutive victories on the 24 Hours of The Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the particular 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley at Welwyn Garden City in addition to 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 on the market before it was fully developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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Inside March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the particular stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for initially, to better that record regarding his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against this train from Cannes to be able to Calais, then by ferry in order to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public highways, and won.

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Barnato drove his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon from the race against the Orange Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of a Speed Six with efficient fastback "Sportsman Coupé" through Gurney Nutting. Both cars became called 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 named it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting simply by Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel on the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred because road and railway wouldn't follow the same way.

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