Speaker - David Skillen - The Bentley Boys

Name: Speaker - David Skillen - The Bentley Boys
Start: 2025-09-16T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-16T12:00:00+01:00
Location: Mansfield Civic Centre

Schedule

Tue Sep 16 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Mansfield Civic Centre | Mansfield, EN

The speaker at our September Meeting will be David Skillen whose talk will be “The Bentley Boys – the playboy racers”.
David was a professional speaker in the Civil Service for 35 years and has continued speaking to numerous groups on a variety of historical subjects ever since.
In 1919 Walter Owen Bentley built his first motor car. It was the beginning of one of the most charismatic marques in motor racing. But equally fascinating are the men-about-town who drove these magnificent cars. Their exploits, on and off the track, led to their name “The Bentley Boys”. They summed up the devil may care attitude of the Roaring Twenties. In this talk, David will look at how the Bentley Boys came to dominate racing, especially Le Mans which they won in four consecutive years, with illustrations and photographs of the men and their wonderful machines.