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The London Life Assurance Co applied for a receiver for Bentley Motors, as Woolf Barnate, the principle investor and Chairman had refused to meet mortgages totally £65,000

Saturday 11th July 1931

The London Life Assurance Co applied for a receiver for Bentley Motors, as Woolf Barnate, the principle investor and Chairman had refused to meet mortgages totally £65,000. Rolls Royce pre-empted Napier Motors in acquiring Bentley and from then on the marque moved towards being a Rolls with a different badge and grille.

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