Editing Bentley (section)

===Rolls-Royce (1931–1970)===
====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]]

====Crewe====
In preparation for war, Rolls-Royce and the [[British Government]] searched for a location for a [[shadow factory]] to ensure production of aero-engines.<ref name=OllerheadnFlood/><ref>Pugh 2000, pp. 192–198.</ref> Crewe, with its excellent road and rail links, as well as being located in the [[Northwest England|northwest]] away from the [[Airstrike|aerial bombing]] starting in mainland Europe, was a logical choice. Crewe also had extensive open farming land. Construction of the factory started on a 60-acre area on the [[potato]] fields of Merrill's Farm in July 1938, with the first [[Rolls-Royce Merlin]] aero-engine rolling off the production line five months later. 25,000 Merlin engines<ref name=OllerheadnFlood/> were produced and at its peak, in 1943 during [[World War II]], the factory employed 10,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jackbarclayparts.co.uk/about-us/crewe-history/|title=Bentley Crewe History 1914 – 2006|publisher=Jack Barclay|access-date=19 November 2010|url-status= dead|archive-date= 5 March 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120305100743/http://www.jackbarclayparts.co.uk/about-us/crewe-history/}}</ref> With the war in Europe over and the general move towards the then new [[jet engine]]s, Rolls-Royce concentrated its aero-engine operations at [[Derby]] and moved motor car operations to Crewe.<ref name=OllerheadnFlood/>

=====Standard Steel saloons=====
[[File:Bentley MK VI DE-14-32 pic3.JPG|right|thumb|[[Bentley Mark VI]] standard steel saloon, the first Bentley supplied by Rolls-Royce with a standard all-steel body]]
Until some time after [[World War&nbsp;II]], most high-end motorcar manufacturers like Bentley and Rolls-Royce did not supply complete cars. They sold [[rolling chassis]], near-complete from the instrument panel forward. Each chassis was delivered to the coachbuilder of the buyer's choice. The biggest specialist car dealerships had coachbuilders build standard designs for them which were held in stock awaiting potential buyers.

[[File:Bentley MK VI project 4951122539.jpg|thumb|left|upright|The assembled pressings from Pressed Steel]]
To meet post-war demand, particularly UK Government pressure to export and earn overseas currency, Rolls-Royce developed an all-steel body using pressings made by [[Pressed Steel Company|Pressed Steel]] to create a "standard" ready-to-drive complete saloon car. The first steel-bodied model produced was the [[Bentley Mark VI]]: these started to emerge from the newly reconfigured Crewe factory early in 1946.<ref name=OllerheadnFlood>Crewe's Rolls-Royce Factory From Old Photographs by Peter Ollerhead and Tony Flood, republished electronically 2013 by Amberley Publishing of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Crewe's Rolls-Royce Factory From Old Photographs|author=Ollerhead, P.|date=2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing|isbn=9781445627649|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWSIAwAAQBAJ|access-date=5 October 2014}}</ref> Some years later, initially only for export, the [[Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn]] was introduced, a standard steel Bentley but with a Rolls-Royce radiator grille for a small extra charge, and this convention continued.

Chassis remained available to coachbuilders until the end of production of the [[Bentley S3]], which was replaced for [[Paris Motor Show|October 1965]] by the chassis-less [[monocoque]] construction [[Bentley T-series|T series]].
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=====Bentley Continental=====
[[File:Bentley SI Continental Fastback Coupe Mulliner.jpg|right|thumb|Bentley Continental, fastback coupé body by H J Mulliner]]
The Continental fastback coupé was aimed at the UK market, most cars, 164 plus a [[prototype]], being right-hand drive. The chassis was produced at the Crewe factory and shared many components with the standard R type. Other than the R-Type standard steel saloon, R-Type Continentals were delivered as rolling chassis to the [[coachbuilder]] of choice. Coachwork for most of these cars was completed by [[H.&nbsp;J. Mulliner & Co.]] who mainly built them in fastback coupe form. Other coachwork came from [[Park Ward]] (London) who built six, later including a drophead coupe version. [[Franay]] (Paris) built five, [[Carrosserie Hermann Graber|Graber]] (Wichtrach, Switzerland) built three, one of them later altered by Köng (Basel, Switzerland), and [[Pininfarina]] made one. [[James Young (coachbuilder)|James Young]] (London) built in 1954 a Sports Saloon for the owner of James Young's, James Barclay.

The early R&nbsp;Type Continental has essentially the same engine as the standard R&nbsp;Type, but with modified carburation, induction and exhaust manifolds along with higher gear ratios.<ref name=Autocar1969>{{cite journal |title = Used Car test: Bentley Continental| journal=Autocar| volume = 130 |issue=3824 | pages = 47–48| date = 29 May 1969}}</ref> After July 1954 the car was fitted with an engine, having now a larger bore of {{convert|94.62|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} with a total displacement of {{convert|4887|cc|L cuin|1|abbr=on}}. The compression ratio was raised to 7.25:1.
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=====Crewe Rolls-Royce Bentleys=====
<gallery style="float:right; clear:right;" caption="Bentleys made by Rolls-Royce Ltd. in Crewe" widths="185">
File:1951 Bentley MK VI HJM 2-door saloon 8160965887.jpg |"The silent sports car"<br />1952 4¼-litre 2-door by H J Mulliner
File:Bentley S2.JPG |Bentley S-series Standard Saloon
File:Bentley T2 reg 1977 6750 cc.JPG|Bentley T-series Standard Saloon (l.w.b.)
</gallery>
* Standard-steel saloon
** 1946–1952 [[Bentley Mark VI|Mark VI]]
** 1952–1955 [[Bentley R Type|R Type]]
* Continental
** 1952–1955 [[Bentley R Type|R Type]] Continental
* S-series
** 1955–1959 [[Bentley S1|S1]] and Continental
** 1959–1962 [[Bentley S2|S2]] and Continental
** 1962–1965 [[Bentley S3|S3]] and Continental
* [[Bentley T-series|T-series]]
** 1965–1977 [[Bentley T-series|T1]]
** 1977–1980 [[Bentley T-series|T2]]
* 1971–1984 [[Rolls-Royce Corniche|Corniche]]
* 1975–1986 [[Rolls-Royce Camargue|Camargue]]
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