Editing Bentley (section)

====Derby====
[[File:1935-bentley-archives.jpg|thumb|"The silent sports car"<br>1935 {{frac|3|1|2}}-litre cabriolet by unknown coachbuilder]]
Rolls-Royce took over the assets of Bentley Motors (1919) Ltd and formed a subsidiary, Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd. Rolls-Royce had acquired the Bentley showrooms in Cork Street, the service station at Kingsbury, the complex at Cricklewood and the services of Bentley himself. This last was disputed by Napier in court without success. Bentley had neglected to register their trademark so Rolls-Royce immediately did so. They also sold the [[Cricklewood]] factory in 1932. Production stopped for two years,<ref>{{cite news |title=Luxury of the long-distance cruiser |first=Ross |last=Finley |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YMBAAAAAIBAJ&dq=bentley%20rolls%20royce%20takeover%201931&pg=3350%2C6839959 |newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|Glasgow Herald]] |date=29 November 1985 |page=21 |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> before resuming at the Rolls-Royce works in Derby. Unhappy with his role at Rolls-Royce, when his contract expired at the end of April 1935 W.&nbsp;O. Bentley left to join [[Lagonda]].

When the new [[Bentley 3.5 Litre|Bentley 3½ litre]] appeared in 1933, it was a sporting variant of the [[Rolls-Royce 20/25]], which disappointed some traditional customers yet was well received by many others. W.&nbsp;O. Bentley was reported as saying, "Taking all things into consideration, I would rather own this Bentley than any other car produced under that name".<ref name=Beaulieu/> Rolls-Royce's advertisements for the {{fraction|3|1|2}}&nbsp;Litre called it "the silent sports car",<ref name="BentleyDNA77">[[#BentleyDNA|Feast, Richard, ''The DNA of Bentley'']], [https://books.google.com/books?id=5l0PBEg9Ta0C&pg=PA71 Chapter 5: "Togetherness: Rolls-Royce/Bentley"], p. 77</ref> a slogan Rolls-Royce continued to use for Bentley cars until the 1950s.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Stein|first1= Ralph|title= Sports Cars of the World|url= https://archive.org/details/sportscarsofworl0000stei|url-access= registration|access-date= 29 September 2013|year=1952|publisher= Scribner|page= [https://archive.org/details/sportscarsofworl0000stei/page/43 43]|quote= These, known as "the silent sports car," have been successfully marketed for almost twenty years now in various models.}}</ref>

All Bentleys produced from 1931 to 2004 used inherited or shared Rolls-Royce chassis, and adapted Rolls-Royce engines, and are described by critics as [[Badge engineering|badge-engineered]] Rolls-Royces.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Bentley is a drive in the wrong direction |first=Brian |last=Sewell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/new-bentley-is-a-drive-in-the-wrong-direction-6165725.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=13 July 2004 |access-date=5 April 2013 |archive-date=21 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621062244/http://www.independent.co.uk/us |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=====Derby Bentleys=====
* 1933–1937 [[Bentley 3.5 Litre|3½-litre]]
** 1936–1939 [[Bentley 3.5 Litre#4¼ Litre|4¼-litre]]
* 1939–1941 [[Bentley Mark V|Mark V]]
** 1939 [[Bentley Mark V|Mark V]]