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}} Walter Owen Bentley, MBE (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971〔Deaths, ''The Times'', Monday, 16 August 1971; pg. 20; Issue 58251〕) was an English engineer who designed engines for cars and aircraft, raced cars and motorcycles, and founded Bentley Motors Limited in Cricklewood near London. He was known as "W. O." without any need to add the word Bentley.〔The convention of the day required that individuals be addressed by their surname prefixed by Miss, Master, Mrs or Mr. To do otherwise indicated a degree of familiarity or implied superiority which might not be welcome to either party. To distinguish by adding just the Christian name might also indicate a level of familiarity. There were further refinements. To differentiate between brothers who worked together it was conventional to use initials rather than the slightly more familiar Christian names. Hence Mr W. O. Bentley working with Mr H. M. Bentley led to the short form of reference to each of them: W. O. and H M.〕 ==Early life== Bentley, born in Hampstead, London, was the youngest of his Adelaide-born parents’ nine children.〔UK Census 1911, 80 Avenue Road, Hampstead. RG14PN616 RG78PN22 RD8 SD1 ED26 SN260〕 His father was retired businessman Alfred Bentley, and mother was Emily, née Waterhouse.〔H. G. Pitt, ‘Bentley, Walter Owen (1888–1971)’, rev. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 ; May 2006〕 As the son of a prosperous family he was privately educated at Clifton College in Bristol from 1902 until 1905, when at the age of 16 he left to start work as an apprentice engineer with the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster in Yorkshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. O. Bentley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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