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The S1 Continental of 1955 featured the last of Bentley’s long-lived six-cylinder engine, which, being a Rolls-Royce design, was smooth and silent but also appropriately powerful. Road test figures published in Autocar recorded a top speed of 120.5 mph. An exceptionally rigid welded box section chassis was mounted on a new front suspension that had a semi-trailing wishbone and repositioned rear springs, which improved handling and softened the ride, while a three-way safety braking setup enabled sure stops at the end of those high-speed journeys. The rear suspension was electrically controlled, and it could be changed to normal or hard by a switch on the steering column.
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W. O. Bentley had already been in the automobile industry, selling cars in partnership with his brother, until he decided it was time to open his own car company and brand, where he could design and execute his own car range.
Suffering from serious financial problems, which the 1929 Wall Street crash came to join, the Bentley company eventually had to be sold in order to survive and British automaker Rolls-Royce came ... more
