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Bentley Generators Limited (/ˈbɛntli/) is a British company that types, 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 had been founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 Present cards 1919 in Cricklewood, North London.Bentley cars are offered via franchised dealers throughout the world, and as of December 2012, China was the biggest market.Most Bentley cars are assembled on the Crewe factory, but a small variety of Continental Flying Spurs are assembled in the factory in Dresden, Germany. Bodies for the Continental are stated in Zwickau, Germany.Bentley won the twenty four hours of Le Mans in 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 your Mulsanne.Rolls-Royce bought Bentley on the receivers in 1931 and also subsequently sold it for you to Vickers plc in 1980 when Rolls-Royce themselves went insolvent. In 1998, Vickers sold it to Volkswagen AG. The sale included the car designs, model nameplates, production and administrative services, the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grille shape trademarks, but not the rights to the Rolls-Royce name or logo which can be owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc as well as were licensed to BMW AG.Before World War I, Walter Owen Bentley, and his brother, Horace Millner Bentley, sold French DFP cars 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 factory, in 1913, he noticed an aluminum paperweight and thought that aluminum could be a suitable replacement for cast iron to fabricate lighter 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 a vehicle chassis, with dummy engine, at the London Electric motor Show. Ex-Royal Flying Corps specialist, Clive Gallop, designed an innovative 5 valves per cylinder engine for your chassis. By December the powerplant was built and managing. Delivery of the very first cars was scheduled for June 1920, but development took longer than estimated and so the date was extended to September 1921. The durability of the 1st Bentley cars earned widespread acclaim and they competed in hill climbs and raced at Brooklands.Bentley's first major event was the 1922 Indiana 500, a race, dominated by specialized vehicles with Duesenberg racing chassis. They entered a altered road car driven 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 commencing in 19th position. The team was then rushed returning to England to compete within the 1922 RAC Tourist Trophy.Captain Woolf BarnatoIn ironic reference in order to his heavyweight boxer's visibility, Captain Woolf Barnato had been nicknamed "Babe". In 1925, he acquired his first Bentley, a 3-litre. With this car they won numerous Brooklands contests. Just a year later on he acquired the Bentley company itself.The Bentley enterprise had been always underfunded, but inspired by this 1924 Le Mans gain by John Duff and also Frank Clement, Barnato agreed to financing Bentley's business. Barnato had incorporated Baromans Ltd inside 1922, which existed as the finance and investment automobile. Via Baromans, Barnato initially invested over £100, 000, saving the business and workforce. A financial reorganisation in the original Bentley company was accomplished and all existing creditors paid back for £75, 000. Existing shares were devalued through £1 each to only 1 shilling, or 5% or his or her original value. Barnato held 149, 500 of the new shares giving him control from the company and he became chairman. Barnato injected further cash into the business: £35, 000 secured by debenture inside July 1927; £40, 000 in 1928; £25, 000 in 1929. With renewed financial feedback, W. O. Bentley was able to create another generation of cars and trucks.

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The particular Bentley Boys were several grouped 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 track record. They kept the marque's reputation for powerful alive; Bentley was noted to its four consecutive victories on the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1927 for you to 1930.In 1929, Tim Birkin developed the 4½ litre, lightweight Blower Bentley at Welwyn Garden City in addition to produced five racing packages, starting with Bentley Blower No. 1 which was optimised to the Brooklands racing circuit. Birkin overruled W. O. and put the model available on the market before it was totally developed. As a result, it was unreliable.

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With March 1930, during the Blue Coach Races, Woolf Barnato raised the particular stakes on Rover and it is Rover Light Six, having raced and survived Le Train Bleu for the very first time, to better that record together with his 6½-litre Bentley Speed Six on the bet of £100. He drove against the actual train from Cannes in order to Calais, then by ferry to be able to Dover, and finally London, travelling on public roads, and won.

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Barnato went his H. J. Mulliner-bodied formal saloon within the race against the Azure Train. Two months later, on 21 May 1930, he took delivery of any Speed Six with streamlined fastback "Sportsman Coupé" by means of Gurney Nutting. Both cars became generally known 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 known as it in memory of his race. [19][20] A painting simply by Terence Cuneo depicts your Gurney Nutting coupé auto racing along a road parallel towards the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred for the reason that road and railway would not follow the same course.

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