Process Paper
Bentley is a frontier because it was the first luxury and performance car brand. The “combination of performance and luxury is the very definition of a Bentley ” (“The Bentley Story”). In 1919, Walter O. Bentley founded Bentley Car Company (“Bentley Was the Father of British Sports Cars”). Bentley's impact was that it started a whole different kind of car. Before, people could not buy a luxury or performance car. Bentley also impacted racing. In 1924, Bentley entered the La Mans and won in 1924 and in 1927-1930 (Bentley Motors). Bentley influenced Rolls Royce in 1933 (“Bentley History”). Rolls Royce produced 3/1/2 liters capable of 90 miles per hour (“Bentley Motors a Century of Class” ). The importance of Bentley is that it started the trend of luxury and performance cars. It “created a company with a simple objective: to build ‘a fast car, a good car, the best in its class’” (“Bentley History”).
I chose this topic by first thinking of a category that I wanted to do research on. I decided to do cars. From there I narrowed down different car companies and I chose Bentley because I like expensive luxury and performance cars. I knew Bentley was the first one. Many other car brands started doing the same thing after. Bentley is a car for the rich.
When doing my research I first searched for primary resources then secondary that I could use. I also found a video about a Bentley Continental GT. I also found several pictures of Bentleys old and new. I also found several websites. I also found a lot of articles. Why I chose a website is it seemed the easiest and a documentary seemed hard and a lot of work. I did not want to make a video of me speaking.
How my topic ties to the history day theme is. My theme Bentley broke the frontier is Bentley was the first car to both be luxury and performance and that is how Bentley broke the frontier.
Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources: https://www.bentleymotors.com/en/world-of-bentley/the-bentley-story/history-and-heritage/the-continental-story.html (Bentley Motors Website: World of Bentley: The Bentley Story: History and Heritage: The Continental Story)
This is an online source. I found that Bentley influenced Rolls Royce. I used it in the introduction of my paper.
https://www.bentleymotors.com/en/world-of-bentley/the-bentley-story/history-and-heritage/historic-people/w-o-bentley.html (Bentley Motors Website: World of Bentley: The Bentley Story: History and Heritage: Historic People: W.O. Bentley)
This is an online source. Rolls Royce produced 3/1/2 liters capable of 90 miles per hour. I used it in the introduction of my paper.
https://www.highline-autos.com/bentley-motors-a-century-of-class/ (“Bentley Motors: A Century of Class - Highline Autos - Your Source for Distinguished Automobiles”)
This is an online source. The importance of Bentley is that it started the trend of luxury and performance cars. It “created a company with a simple objective: to build ‘a fast car, a good car, the best in its class’. I used it in the introduction of my paper.
Secondary Sources:
https://www.bentleynewportbeach.com/bentley-models/continental-gt.htm (Beach)
This is an online source. I used this source for my pictures. I used the pictures in importance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginelifestyles/albums/72157623709666812/with/4465803286/(Lifestyles)
This is an online source. I used this source for pictures on the frontier page on my website.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginelifestyles/4465801774/ (“Imagine Lifestyles Black Fleet 12”)
This is an online source. It is a picture i used for timeline
This is an online source. I used it for a picture on my website page background.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2021-bentley-bentayga-review-price-specs/ (Gold)
This is an online source. I used this source for a picture in my website page impact.
This is an online source. It is a picture used on my home page for my website. https://www.autoblog.com/bentley/flying+spur/ (Teague)
This is an online source. This is a picture I used it induction page on my website