WHERE THE 'RIGHT CROWD' GATHERED.(News)
AutoWeek, March, 2007
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Byline: JULIAN RENDELL The names of Bentley and Brooklands have been inextricably linked since the 1920s, when Walter Owen Bentley's fledgling car company started racing at Britain's first purpose-built race circuit, Brooklands. His "Bentley Boys'' cut their teeth on the bumpy concrete banking at a circuit now swallowed up in urban sprawl 30 miles southwest of London.
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Back then, it was the fashionable meeting place for well-to-do thrill seekers playing with cars and airplanes, hence its motto: "The Right Crowd and No Crowding.'' Success at Brooklands established ...
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