Showing posts with label H.M. Bentley acquired the soon to wind up Bentley and Bentley Company from a French vehicles organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H.M. Bentley acquired the soon to wind up Bentley and Bentley Company from a French vehicles organization. Show all posts

How Bentley Gained Their Name


The organization made plane motors amid World War I and in 1919 got to be Bentley Motors and presented the first flying B symbol on the 1920 Bentley, a test auto. WO Bentley in a visit to a French auto maker, in 1919 settled on the choice to utilize aluminum rather than cast iron for the motor cylinders, on account of the aluminum's lightweight The French auto race the LeMans and other auto dashing occasions got to be well known in the 1920's and 1930's Bentley Motors was obtained by a little gathering of rich British driver, known as the "Bentley Boys". This current bunch's aggregate arrangement was to keep the execution measures for auto race autos high prompt their triumphant four continuous 24 hour LeMans The years of Rolls Royce proprietorship have been alluded to as "the blackest of all." WO was downgraded to a less effective position and inevitably the Rolls Royce and Bentley's were being delivered one next to the other
The Bentley's turned into a lower estimated rendition of the Rolls Royce without the particular grille. WO had left the organization in 1935, he kicked the bucket in 1971.
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