100 surprising YEARS: THE BENTLEY STORY
A FLASH OF INSPIRATION
In his near the beginning years of racing, W.O. Bentley imported French cars prepared by Doriot, Flandrin & Parent. On a visit to DFP’s office in France, he picked up an aluminum paperweight and wonder whether the lightweight material could be used to advance the pistons used in engines. It had previously been consider very weak and prone to melt, but W.O. realized that adding up a little copper to make a new alloy might solve the problem. And it started work.
He started by fit the pistons to his own opposition car, and Start winning races with easy.
When the 1st World War broke out, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service where he
introduced aluminum pistons to make fighter aircraft engines Extra powerful and trustworthy
. Finally, when the war was ended, W.O. could use his device to revolutionize the planet of
automobiles @ and Bentley Motors was started on I0 July I9I9.
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