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Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded by W. O. Bentley (1888-1971) in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London, and became widely known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930.
20th February 1958, W,O, Bentley, the founder of the Bentley company
Bentley Motors was founded by W.O. Bentley. The first car to bear his name pulled out of New Street Mews, London in 1919. From modest beginnings, the company moved from strength to strength - in a relentless pursuit of both luxury and performance.
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To mark Bentley's Centenary, we take a look at some of the significant events of the first 100 years. This is a story that many exceptional people have helped to shape: from the company's inspired founder to the current team of over 4,000 dedicated employees; and from the passionate Bentley Boys and Girls of the 1920s to the visionary Bentley owners of today.
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Walter Owen Bentley established Bentley Motors in London on January 20, 1919. Six months later, the company was wound up in the course of a financial restructuring and refounded under the same name. Bentley had a passion for engines and speed.
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Walter Owen Bentley was born in London in 1888. He dreamed of a railroad career, but an apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway disavowed him of that ambition. A keen motorcycle racer, he.
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History of Bentley. Cricklewood (1919-1931) 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 known, always wanted to design and build his own cars. At the DFP factory, in 1913, he noticed an aluminium paperweight and thought that.
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History of Bentley dates back to 1919 when W. O. Bentley and his brother H. M. Bentley founded Bentley Motors Limited. W.O. started dreaming about building his own cars bearing his name shortly after the brothers opened the UK agency for the French DFP (Doriot, Flandrin & Parant) cars in 1912.
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For Bentley Motors, it was July 10, 1919 when 31-year-old Walter Owen Bentley officially founded his new company in a backstreet London garage "to build a fast car, a good car, the best in.
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Walter Owen "W.O." Bentley was born to upper-middle-class parents in 1888 and was the youngest of nine children. Even at an early age, he was fascinated with the mechanics of movement. At age nine he bought a used bicycle and took it apart himself to understand how it worked. Trains were another of his obsessions.
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Designed by W.O. Bentley in 1919, the year Bentley Motors was founded, the 3-Litre went on sale in 1921. The use of the metric system in its name hinted at the ambition to create a car for the fast, open roads of the Continent.
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1919 — Walter Owen ("W.O.") Bentley founds Bentley Motors on January 18th. 1921 — The history of Bentley motor cars truly begins with the delivery of the brand's first automobile in September. 1926 — Captain Woolf Barnato acquires Bentley and invests heavily in the business.
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From W.O. Bentley, who founded Bentley Motors in 1919, to the current team of over 4,000 dedicated employees, the company's extraordinary cars have always been designed and built by exceptional people using only the finest of materials. They have always been driven by exceptional people, too.
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Born in 1888, W.O. Bentley developed a fascination for steam engines and spent five years learning about locomotive engineering at the Great Northern Railway in Doncaster. While working for the.
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The 1970s is a landmark decade in the history of Bentley Motors. The founder, motor enthusiast and creator of one of the world's most desirable high performance grand tourers, W.O. Bentley, dies aged 82 in August 1971.
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The Bentley Speed 8 LMP car was designed by English designer Peter Elleray. The Speed 8 raced competitively at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year. Making its racing debut at the 24 Hours of.
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Bentley was founded in 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley, or W.O. as he was known. W.O. Bentley's mission statement is as true today as it was then "To build a good car, a fast car, the best in its class". The first Bentley car, EXP 1, was completed in London in 1919. Cricklewood was the first home of Bentley, producing cars until 1931.