Walter Owen Bentley—he preferred W.O. because he never liked the name Walter—was born in 1888, the year that Jack the Ripper rose to gory fame. Bentley’s family had done well in “the trades,” as the landed gentry around Mayfair would have sniffed, and W.O. became an engineer in love with all things self-propelled. He worked […]
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Driving This Bentley Is the Closest I’ve Been To Being in a Wingless Biplane
