Bentley 4 1/4 Litre

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Company Bentley Motors Limited was founded by Walter Owen Bentley in 1919 in Cricklewood near London, and now company is based in Crewe in England. Walter Owen Bentley (1888-1971), was an English engineer; designer of aero engines, car designer and racing driver. W. O. Bentley, before World War First, was seeling cars with his brother, but he always wanted to produce his own models. So in 1919, he founded his automobile manufacturing company and began development. One year later, he also finished the development of the engine, and in 1921 began delivery to customers. But Bentley was constantly in financial problems and in 1925, he asked for help, British financier, diamond magnate and car racing driver Joel Woolf Barnato (1895-1948), however, he didn’t just help him, but he took over him the entire company. However, in 1929 there was a financial crisis, Bentley cars were sold very poorly, so therefore Barnato was also in financial problems. For that reason, he was forced to sell the Bentley company, and in 1931, Rolls-Royce bought Bentley under the name British Central Eqiutable Trust, so that even Bentley did not know who is the buyer, until the deal has not been done. Bentley company is now called Bentley Motors Ltd., and W. O. Bentley was in it, just the employee. Dissatisfied with his status, W. O. Bentley in 1935, moved to company Lagonda. That same year, the Bentley factory in Cricklewood closed, and production was transferred to Rolls-Royce factory in Derby. After World War Second, production of Bentley and Rolls-Royce moved to the former Aircraft Engine Factory in Crewe. All Bentley then become actually less luxurious Rolls-Royce with a lower price, but that did not increase sales of Bentley cars. During the seventies and eighties, performed, dark days for Bentley and in one time period, only 5% of cars, which were produced in factory in Crewe, were Bentley cars. Company Rolls-Royce was also in crisis then, but it was bought in 1980, by wealthy English investor. In the eighties, Bentley again started to produce cars of his own design, and the first model was Mulsanne with many derivatives of the following years. It has greatly helped Bentley, and the number of cars built in 1991, was equivalent to that of a Rolls-Royce.