THE HOME OF BENTLEY
- The Pyms Lane factory in Crewe has been the Home of Bentley since 1946
- The Bentley Motors factory is a fully integrated site – all aspects of car production from Design, Engineering, Manufacture, Quality, and Sales & Marketing take place in Crewe
- The site covers an area of 521,111m2, with 166,930m2 indoors
- Pyms Lane is also home to CW1 House, Bentley’s flagship showroom concept, and named after Bentley’s postal code
- The Bentley Boutique is situated in CW1 Houseand sells over 130 items from the Bentley Collection range. Popular items include a black and red leather weekender bag, a Bentley Wings pen and USB in the shape of Bentley key fob
- The 20,815 solar panels on Bentley’s factory roof and 10,000 solar panels in the UK’s largest solar powered car port, can supply up to 65% of the site’s electrical requirements and save an estimated 5,450 tons of CO2 emissions a year. They generate enough energy to power 1,200 houses for a year.
- Bentley is the first UK Automotive plant to achieve both the ISO 14001 environmental standard and ISO 50001 energy management standard. While the company has increased production volumes tenfold over the last decade, the amount of energy used per car has fallen by over 60%.
- Bentley has become the first UK automotive manufacturer to be awarded the triple Carbon Trust Standard for carbon, water and waste reduction
- With improvements in recycling processes the very small amount of waste material that cannot be recycled and is sent to landfill fell by 99.1 per cent in the 10-year period from 2010, to just 3.57 kg/vehicle last year.
- The average length of service at Bentley is 12 years
- More than 700 businesses supply 18,000 parts from 31 countries and five continents to Crewe - 82 suppliers are located within a 50-mile radius of the factory
- Bentley’s ‘Crewe Genuine Parts’ facility at Orion Park in Crewe holds over 60,000 parts, providing support for all cars built from1955 to present day
- Orion Park has facilities to cut a key without an original to copy, for Bentleys dating to the early 1960s
CRAFTMANSHIP
- On average, 50 Continentals and Flying Spurs and 40 Bentaygas are built a day.
- It takes around 110 hours to build a Continental GT, around 130 to build a Flying Spur and 130 to build a Bentayga.
- Bentley is recognised as the centre of excellence for Wood, Leather, and W12 Engine manufacture within the Volkswagen Group
- It takes 45 people six and a half hours to build one W12 engine before undertaking a highly sophisticated test regime of over an hour via three specialist diagnostic machines during the engines assemble.
- Around 14 bull hides go in to a Bentayga, 13 in a Flying Spur, 11 in a Continental, or 10 for the Convertible version
- Every sheet of wood within a complete car comes from the exact same tree. This is to ensure the pattern and colour is the same throughout the car and remains consistent during aging
- Each bundle of veneer consists of 24 leaves
- A
Bentley wood specialist views around 25,000 square metres of veneer in
its raw form during selection, checking every inch, to ensure it is of
the finest quality, a process that takes two days
QUALITY
- Once a week an engine undergoes a full audit test – running the engine at speeds up to 6,000 revolutions per minute
- Every car undergoes a 500-650-point checklist before final sign off, dependent on options
- 20 cars per week undergo a full audit, which includes full function, road test (around 40 miles per test), and a full interior and exterior check
- Every car is tested on a rolling road, which is equivalent to four miles
- Bentley
test drivers rack up tens of thousands of miles driving cars before
handing over to the customer (not including audit miles and Quality
Assurance Centre miles)
