Bentley Motors has been making cars at Crewe for 75 years. Bentley MK V was the last car model built in the Derby Factory in May 1946, and today stood latest Bentley cars.

197,086 cars -= have been made in Crewe and is 97% of all Bentleys ever created. Consider this, only 38,933 were made before cars such as the Continental GT and Bentayga came along in the 21st century.

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Here’s another interesting fact: 84% of Crewe Bentleys for the UK, are still on the road today. Modern production means 85 Bentleys are built every per day. They now build in one month, what it took to do in a year only two decades ago.

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ABOVE: 75 Years of Bentley

Bentley board member,  Peter Bosch, said:

“For 75 years Crewe has been synonymous with luxury car manufacturing – a global showcase of craftsmanship and quality.  In that time, our colleagues have produced some of the world’s most iconic and desirable products, including cars for global royalty and unique personal commissions.

“Beyond bricks and mortar, this milestone pays homage to the colleagues who have built our brand in Crewe, and I’d like to express my thanks and admiration for their dedication over three quarters of a century.

“With our most recent investment we have transformed our historic factory into a collaborative modern campus; a carbon-neutral, innovative, low environmental impact site that retains the best of our heritage while looking strongly to the future.  In many factory areas, modern, digitised production systems complement traditional craftsmanship skills employed on our cars since 1946.

“As we cautiously emerge from the pandemic, we look forward to welcoming our customers back to Crewe to experience our unique factory and meet our colleagues in person.”

Bentley history can be traced back to 1919, adding the Crewe site in 1938. The Pyms Lane site once a humble potato field, created Merlin aeroplane engines for the war. The factory had good transport links and a merry band of skilled labour. 1943 was the biggest year, with 10,000 colleagues.

Production ceased in the war years, but the Derby factory was committed to building jet engines in 1946, meaning a new location was needed.

Bentley Mark VI was the first car to be built entirely at the Crewe factory. It was the first to have a pressed-steel body, with its 4.3-litre straight six engine increased in capacity to 4.6-litre in 1951. Although coachbuilt cars could still be ordered, Mark VI was on of the biggest selling Bentleys ever.

Crewe has built some of the most beautiful Bentleys such as  R-Type Continental, Turbo R, Arnage and Azure.

Volkswagen Group bought Bentley in 1998 and set about modernising the factory.

Pyms Lane has been Bentley’s headquarters since 1938. The factory is fully carbon neutral, the first luxury car brand to do so.

in the next few weeks, Bentley’s new Engineering Test Centre and R&D buildings will open, helping Bentley’s forward to electrification.

Bentley’s Beyond100 strategy will see the factory carbon neutral by 2030, with the Crewe factory climate positive thereafter.

By 2026, Bentley have only PHEV or BEV models and be fully electric in 2030. The industry-leading Beyond100 strategy will transform every aspect of the business as Bentley accelerates into its second century of luxury car production.