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...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...“Purr,” responds a Bentley. A cartoon muscular chap dressed only in shorts is using the road as a catwalk....
...“Because he’d heard my name over the years he thought I’d be driving a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley. He was convinced that I wasn’t Dennis Alcapone,” he laughs ruefully, then grows serious....
...With a nod to Trinidad, the land of my birth, I like to turn up my calypso playlist, pour myself a bitters-and-lime “Bentley” cocktail and get stuck into swirling....
...Henry Miller focuses on the male form and has recently curated a selection of works on sale for under £1,000....
...In 1897 the then owner, society portraitist Henry Tanworth Wells (1828-1903) added a square painting studio to the west side....
...“You would never see a cheap car, it was starting from Bentley and Lamborghini.”...
...Its plan was based, rather ambitiously in retrospect, on the shape of a Bentley radiator....
...VW Group, whose 12 brands include Porsche, Audi, Skoda and Bentley, has pledged to spend €70bn to electrify 300 models by 2030. It aims to be the biggest producer of electric vehicles by 2025....
...Away from Moscow’s Michelin-starred restaurants, Bentley showrooms and glistening granite pavements, Russia’s regional industrial belt is struggling....
...He has no great innovations to his name to match Thomas Edison’s lightbulb or Henry Ford’s Model T motor car....
...“To some degree, carmakers are already making cars in regional locations,” said Ian Henry, director of UK group AutoAnalysis....
...Last year’s victor, the Hepworth Wakefield, has a fine collection of works by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and has mounted an inventive succession of exhibitions ....
...“A state museum is like driving a 1930s Bentley because the machine is not adapted to its function very well....
...Additional reporting by Henry Mance...
...Yachts, castles and Bentleys — if you have enough money, all these can be yours. Yet grouse moors are different....
...“They’re the world’s largest international cable company, so they must have something going for them,” said Phil Bentley, CWC’s chief executive....
...VW, which stretches across 12 brands from Bentley and Bugatti to Skoda and Seat, is a key part of the region’s manufacturing footprint....
...No longer or wider than a standard five-door Bentley, the two-seater AeroMobil has two wings that fold back behind its main cockpit, and a back-mounted propeller that tucks in between the retracted wings...
...And for Premier League footballers, it may be time to order another Bentley. ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Maybe it’s time to introduce some charges / From Richard Ross...
...Bentley will hire 141 workers at its factory in Crewe as the luxury carmaker increases production amid surge in British car output....
...The 101-year-old carmaker – famed as the supplier of James Bond’s vehicle of choice – is struggling to match the sales growth of far larger rivals, such as Volkswagen’s Bentley, Fiat’s Ferrari and Tata Motors...
...government support for investment and innovation, alongside a concerted effort to reposition the UK as a leader for high-end, premium models, led by manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, BMW’s Mini brand and Bentley...
...Aston Martin is in a make-or-break period, investing heavily in its products and its global presence as it attempts to catch up with richer, more successful rivals such as Volkswagen’s Bentley or Fiat Chrysler...
...“We’ve got the balance sheet headroom,” said Phil Bentley, CWC’s new chief executive. “It’s a case of ‘let’s get competitive in our networks’.”...
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