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WW II auto industry depression made Rolls Royce and Bentley, the genius English automobile companies to be sold to BMW and VV, the German companies equally excellent in technology.

Rolls Royce first manufactured Aircraft Engines and was the second largest in the World, next to General Electric Aviation.

The automobile company was separated in 1973. Around half the aircraft engines used by the Allies World War I were made by Rolls-Royce.

Bentley was founded by *Walter Owen Bentley*, known to all as “W.O.” He was a born engineer, but had experience with trains. In 1905, aged 16, he went on his on his bicycle to work at the Great Northern Railway Locomotive Works in Doncaster, northern England.

Being a racer at heart, Bentley’s first products were high- performance open cars that immediately established themselves as winners in the hectic world of European racing between the wars. Bentley cars won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times from 1923.

Bentley had realized that there was a limited market for “sporting” and race cars,

His company would have to make bread-and-butter vehicles that would pay the bills. To this end, his London-based company built rolling chassis that were fitted with very fancy coachwork bodies for wealthy clients. The last of the line was powered by a huge 8.0-liter six-cylinder engine. Bentley had become a major competitor for Rolls-Royce and other British luxury car builders.

But the big Bentley couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Great Depression was on and the privately-funded Bentley Motors, Ltd. was broke.

Yet despite its racing record and public acclaim, Bentley Motors was beset by financial difficulty. By 1931 the golden age was over, but as closure loomed, Rolls-Royce stepped in to save the Bentley name - and a new era began.

World War II devastated the British industrial complex and Rolls-Royce suffered too.

The turbulent financial times of the ’60s culminated with the company becoming part of the Vickers conglomerate which in turn recently sold the Rolls-Royce name to BMW and the Bentley name, factory and assets to Volkswagen.

BMW

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