Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited | |
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Bentleyøs vingede "B"-logo og motorhjelmsornament | |
Virksomhedsinformation | |
Selskabsform | Public limited company |
Branche | Bilindustri |
Grundlagt | 18. januar 1919 |
Grundlægger | W. O. Bentley |
Hovedsæde | Crewe, Storbritannien |
Produkt | Personbil |
Organisation | |
Ejer | Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft |
Moderselskab | Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft |
Eksterne henvisninger | |
Virksomhedens hjemmeside | |
Information med symbolet hentes fra Wikidata. |
Bentley Motors Limited er en britisk luksusbilsproducent. Bilproducenten har siden 1998 været en del af Volkswagen Group og fungerer som et af koncernens luksusbilmærker. Hovedsædet ligger som oprindeligt i Crewe i England, det samme gør produktionsanlægget. I november 2012 var Kina det største marked for Bentley.[1]
Historie
Bentley Motors er grundlagt den 18. januar 1919 af Walter Owen Bentley (kendt som W.O. Bentley eller bare "W.O."). Mr. Bentley havde tidligere været kendt for at fremstille motorer til fly under 1. verdenskrig, den mest kendte var Bentley BR1, som blev brugt i senere udgaver af Sopwith Camel.
Efter 1. verdenskrig designede og fremstillede W.O. Bentley biler der vandt 24-timers racerløbet i Le Mans i 1924 og modeller der gentog succesen i 1927, 1928, 1929 og 1930. I 1931 blev Bentley opkøbt af Rolls-Royce og i 1998 solgt til tyske Volkswagen Group, som fortsat er ejer.
Kilder
- ^ Einhorn, Bruce (5. april 2012). "The Surge in China's Auto Sales May Soon Slow". Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Coat of Arms of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921, died 2021) granted in 1949 to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (Sir Philip Mountbatten) consort to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In 1947 the Prince was made Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by King George VI. The coat of arms represents his lineage as a Prince of Greece and Denmark on his paternal side and his descent of the Mountbatten family on his maternal side.
“ | Quarterly, First Or, semée of hearts Gules, three lions passant in pale Azure (For Denmark), Second Azure, a cross Argent (For Greece), Third Argent, two pallets Sable (For Battenberg or Mountbatten), Fourth Argent, upon a rock Proper a castle triple towered Sable, masoned Argent, windows, port, turret-caps and vanes Gules (For Edinburgh), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a crest, upon a coronet of a son of the sovereign Proper, the royal helm Or, upon which issuant from a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers alternately Sable and Argent; Mantling Or and ermine; for Supporters, dexter, a representation of Hercules girt about the loins with a lion skin, crowned with a chaplet of oak leaves, holding in the dexter hand a club Proper, sinister, a lion queue fourchée ducally crowned Or and gorged with a naval coronet Azure; Motto ’God Is My Help’. | ” |
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Ostrich feather Badge of the Prince of Wales
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1935 Bentley 3-1/2 Liter Cabriolet owned by HRH Aly S. Kahn photographed at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, by Douglas Wilkinson for www.bentley-archives.com, part of the www.Automobile-Archives.com network.
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A Bentley badge and hood ornament atop a 1960 S-2 4-Door Saloon. See also the original color version and a larger B/W version.
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Ostrich feather Badge of the Prince of Wales