Walter Owen Bentley (1888 - 1971), "W. O." to his friends, founded Bentley Motors Limited. The chassis for the first model (3 litres) was exhibited at the London Motor Show in October 1919. By December it had a working engine. But it was not until September 1921 that the first was on the streets.
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Bentley Motor Car
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Bentley Motor Car
Google Street View shows the plaque in place March 2022 but just an empty fra...
Bentley Motor Car - first lost plaque
This image was taken by Alan Zafer and was published in the Ham & High. ...
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American Society of Civil Engineers
Founded to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Based in Reston, Virginia, it is probably the oldest national engineering society in the United States.
1 memorial
Paddington Station centenary
London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the...
1 memorial
Sir John Fowler
Civil engineer. Born in Wadsley, Sheffield. Fowler's was a long and eminent career, spanning most of the 19th century's railway expansion, and he was engineer, adviser or consultant to many British...
1 memorial
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
1 memorial
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