History:

About 100 years ago from now, W.O. Bentley founded Bentley Motors. This range of years and decades shoe the experience they work on a car and for car, it is not just a few years or months.. these are 100 years for being excellent on road. In 1912 he and his brother started the business of importing the cars from Parant and Flandrin. At next year, W.O. discovered a paperweight made of aluminum and wondered whether this lightweight material would make a better piston than steel or cast iron. W.O. went on to develop the BR.2 and visited active squadrons while supervising its production. At one aerodrome, as he later recalled, “every gun in Flanders seemed to open upon us” during a strafing attack by Manfred von Richtofen, otherwise known as the Red Baron. Thankfully for the future of motoring, W.O. and the officer accompanying him survived by jumping into a canal.  W.O. Bentley was awarded an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1919 New Year’s Honours list. He also received £8,000 from the Commission of Awards to Inventors, which gave him the capital he needed to fulfill his dream and start his own car company. And so, on 10 July 1919, Bentley Motors was born. “The policy was simple,” W.O. said. “We were going to make a fast car, a good car, the best in its class.” W.O. was developing the very first Bentley; The Autocar magazine reported that he was working on a model “intended to appeal to those enthusiastic motorists who desire a car which, practically speaking, is a true racing car with touring accessories” . The 8-Litre was W.O.’s final creation and is widely considered to be his masterpiece. Such was the power and torque of the straight-six engine, the company proclaimed that the 8-Litre would be more than capable of 100 mph, regardless of the type of body the owner had chosen. W.O. said, “I have always wanted to produce a dead silent 100 mph car, and now I think that we have done it.”