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  2. Bentley 3 Litre - Wikipedia

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    The Bentley 3 Litre was a car chassis manufactured by Bentley. The company's first, it was developed from 1919 and made available to customers' coachbuilders from 1921 to 1929. The Bentley was very much larger than the 1368 cc Bugattis that dominated racing at the time, but double the size of engine and strength compensated for the extra weight.

  3. Bentley 3.5 Litre - Wikipedia

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    3½-litre coupé de ville by Thrupp & Maberly 1934. The BentleyLitre (later enlarged to 4¼ Litre) was a luxury car produced by Bentley from 1933 to 1939. It was presented to the public in September 1933, shortly after the death of Henry Royce, and was the first new Bentley model following Rolls-Royce's acquisition of the Bentley brand in 1931.

  4. 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans - Wikipedia

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    1923 Bentley 3-Litre tourer. The sole British entry was a privately-owned Bentley with a small support team from the factory. W. O. Bentley had founded his own company straight after the war in January 1919 and regularly raced his 3-litre Sports. John Duff was Bentley's new London agent, who had set almost 40 international records at Brooklands ...

  5. Bentley 4½ Litre - Wikipedia

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    The BentleyLitre is a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. [1] Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more powerful car by increasing its engine displacement to 4.4 litres (270 cubic inches). A racing variant was known as the Blower Bentley.

  6. Rolls-Royce–Bentley L-series V8 engine - Wikipedia

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    Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley in 1931 and continued to use Bentley engines alongside their own for a time, although none was a V8. Prior to World War II, Rolls-Royce had developed a 7.3-litre V-12 for the Phantom III, which was succeeded by the inlet-over-exhaust B60 straight-6 and B80 straight-8 series of engines.

  7. Bentley 8 Litre - Wikipedia

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    The Bentley 8 Litre was a large inline 6-cylinder super-luxury car made in various configurations by Bentley Motors Limited at Cricklewood, London. Announced 15 September 1930, it was also the last completely new model by Bentley before the company's financial collapse and forced sale to Rolls-Royce Limited.

  8. Multi-valve - Wikipedia

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    Bentley used multi-valve engines from the beginning. The Bentley 3 Litre, introduced in 1921, used a monobloc straight-4 with aluminium pistons, pent-roof combustion chambers, twin spark ignition, SOHC, and four valves per cylinder. It produced appr. 70 bhp (0.38 bhp per cubic inch). The 1927 BentleyLitre was of similar engine design. The ...

  9. Bentley Speed Six - Wikipedia

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    The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 [5] as a more sporting version of the BentleyLitre. [12] With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, [ 5 ] [ 8 ] [ 11 ] a high-performance camshaft, [ 14 ] and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced 180 hp (130 kW) at 3500 rpm.