{"id":817128,"date":"2024-02-19T01:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?page_id=817128"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:58:45","slug":"bentley-cricklewood-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/bentley\/bentley-cricklewood-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley (The Cricklewood Years) Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cricklewood Era Bentley Cars<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">1919 &#8211; 1931<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">Bentley Motors was born in January 1919 and was the idea of Walter Owen Bentley (known as \u2018W.O&#8221;), a well known aeronautical engine designer, amateur racer and car importer.&nbsp;W.O had developed the BR1 and BR2 aluminum-piston rotary aero engines before founding Bentley. In October 1919, Bentley Motors\u2019 first-ever engine, the 3-litre (with aluminum pistons), burst into life in New Street Mews, London.&nbsp;Soon after production began in 1921, in a new factory in Cricklewood, in north London.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-91137\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Full Model List <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-48430\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Models In-Depth<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-70424\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Image Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1926_Bentley_6Litre1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bentley Models from 1919 &#8211; 1931<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">The first 3-litre production car, the first car ever named after its cylinder capacity, was delivered in September that year. Like many founders of the time, W.O believed racing was the best way to promote the new company and embarked on an ambitious program of motor sport, with Bentley winning its first event in May 1921 and the 3-litre competed at Le Mans five times and won twice.&nbsp;Great cars followed the 3-litre. Deliveries of the six-cylinder 6 1\/2-litre began in 1926, while the 4 1\/2-litre, launched in 1927, had a modular four-cylinder version of the 6 1\/2-litre\u2019s motor and is probably the most fondly remembered of all the Cricklewood cars: it won Le Mans in 1928. The Speed Six, W.O Bentley\u2019s own favorite, used a modified 6 1\/2-litre engine and won Le Mans twice (1929 and 1930).&nbsp;There was also the legendary \u2018Blower Bentley\u2019 \u2013 a supercharged 4 1\/2-litre and the amazing 8-litre. Thanks to the Great Depression, Bentley decided to switch gears and produced a more economical 4-litre version. It didn&#8217;t work and Bentley went through more turmoil before ending up being owners by Rolls-Royce. Future Bentleys would be made, at least for the remainder of the \u201930s, at Rolls-Royce\u2019s home in Derby.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bentley-Speed-Six-Continuation-Series-0-Hero-1074x711-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricklewood Era Bentley Cars 1919 &#8211; 1931 Bentley Motors was born in January 1919 and was the idea of Walter Owen Bentley (known as \u2018W.O&#8221;), a well known aeronautical engine designer, amateur racer and car importer.&nbsp;W.O had developed the BR1 and BR2 aluminum-piston rotary aero engines before founding Bentley. 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