Intriguing Facts you Probably Did Not Know About Bentley
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Fact 1 -Who were the Bentley Boys
The Bentley Boys were a group of rich racers who race cars back in the 1920s and they promoted the cars amongst the rich elite.
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Fact 2 - A hero amongst the Bently Boys.
Glen Kidston was a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, While serving on the X1, the Sub he was serving on embedded itself on the sandbeds and all the gauges stopped working, but Glen managed to get it all up and running.
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In 1929 Glen was traveling between Croydon and Amsterdam in a plane, the plane had an unfortunate incident and crashed. Glen risked his life and run back into the fire to save Prince Eugen Von Schaumburg-Lippe. He managed to rescue the prince from the plane but the prince later died due to the extent of his burns
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Fact 3 - Rolls Royce Bought Bentley.
Woolf Barnato, Financed the company making him the boss, Although in 1931 he didn't renew his investment and that's how Bentley got bought out by Rolls Royce
Fact 4 -Rolls-Royces Same As Bentley
For a total of sixty years, Bentley's models were based on Rolls-Royce models.
