Talk:W. O. Bentley

message: Holy crap, this page is ridiculously bad. --Karch 07:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: With all the recent problems about captions of thumbnails depicting Bentley automobiles, it is interesting to note that there is no photograph in this article of the man himself.  Does anyone know where to find a public domain photograph of Walter Owen Bentley? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:14, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph of W. O. Bentley? 

message: And this image helps us to guess why he (may have) said that. Eddaido (talk) 10:17, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Bugatti's (possibly apocryphal) remark is already included in the article. Writegeist (talk) 17:06, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I wanted to draw permanent attention to the difference in scale of their competing vehicles and this seemed to be a good place to do it. Also a good place to be corrected if I am wrong(!). Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 12:42, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: According to David Venables in Bugatti: A Racing History (Haynes, 2002), Bugatti was alleged to have said, while watching the Le Mans 24 Hours of 1929 -- in which he did not compete -- 'Mr Bentley is very clever to make his lorries go so fast.' The race was won by Bentley Speed Six 'Old No.1'. When Bugatti's alleged remark was reported, he wrote to W.O. to deny it and apologise. In the circumstances, this denial was quite possibly a lie, but polite and diplomatic and face-saving, because the remark was so obviously sour-grapes. Bugatti only raced against Bentley at Le Mans twice. In the inaugural race of 1923, the Bentley 3 Litre placed fourth equal and the Bugatti Type 22 was tenth. In 1930, 'Old No.1' won a second time (an achievement not equalled until Gulf Ford GT 40 P1075 won in 1968 and '69) and a privately entered Bugatti Type 40, with two female drivers, was seventh. Bugatti would not win Le Mans until 1937, with a 3.3-litre Type 57 rather different from his tiny 1920s 1.5-litre cars. He repeated the feat in 1939, gaining two Le Mans victories to W.O.'s dominant five. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:15, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ettore Bugatti is said to have commented that W.O. made “the fastest lorries in the world.” 

message: I put this in.  He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1995.   Why can't we just use this as a format for both of you?  See WP:EL and WP:Wikihouding.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:57, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
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