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10 March 2008

At "Bentleys"

Recollections of Life as a "Hand" With the Old Company — the Height of Youthful Ambition Attained by an Enthusiast — "Upon leaving school I entered the works of Bentley Motors, Ltd., at Cricklewood — but that bare statement of the beginning of a career in the motor trade hardly does justice to my feelings at the time. The very name Bentley meant more to me than any other name in the world; for years I had followed the fortunes of the marque and had studied the specifications of the cars (when I should have studied other and duller subjects!), and my enthusiasm was such that I was even known to my schoolfellows by the nickname of "Bentley"."

At "Bentleys"
Published in "The Autocar', January 16, 1942

Recollections of Life as a "Hand" With the Old Company — the Height of Youthful Ambition Attained by an Enthusiast — "Upon leaving school I entered the works of Bentley Motors, Ltd., at Cricklewood — but that bare statement of the beginning of a career in the motor trade hardly does justice to my feelings at the time. The very name Bentley meant more to me than any other name in the world; for years I had followed the fortunes of the marque and had studied the specifications of the cars (when I should have studied other and duller subjects!), and my enthusiasm was such that I was even known to my schoolfellows by the nickname of "Bentley"."    Continued...

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First published in the January 16th, 1942 issue of "The Autocar"
Posted here on Mar 10, 2008