1930 On a rainy night in March, "Bentley Boy" Woolf? Barnato and his friends drove a custom-made Bentley on a muddy and rugged country road in France. At the same time, there is an advanced train to Calais, France-Le? Train? Blue.
Barnatok overcame the bad weather on the way and successfully crossed the English Channel. The next afternoon, he arrived at Barnato Private Club in St. Jeames Street, and the high-class train Le? Train? Bleu arrived in Calais, France in four minutes, which is the world-famous Le? Train? Bleu？ Race, and Barnato's car is the speed specially customized by Bentley's Moulinas department? Six.
As Bentley's unique customized brand label, Mulliner has long been synonymous with top-level customization of automobiles, the designer of gorgeous makeup in the automobile industry, and the creator of luxury creative models. At first, Mulliner was founded as a harness brand in16th century. In18th century, he customized and maintained carriages for the Royal Post Office, which made him famous. Then, with the appearance of motor vehicles, Mulliner gradually withdrew from the carriage business and began to focus on automobile body manufacturing.
What about Moulinas? The relationship with Bentley can be traced back to the beginning of the establishment of Bentley Motor Company. Founder at that time? Mr. W. O. Bentley personally commissioned it? Moulinas? For celebrities? EXP 1？ Customize the body. And after that, Moulinas? The cooperation with Bentley has become closer and stronger. 1952? Now, as one of many prestigious Bentley designs, Mulliner? For the epoch-making Bentley R-Type? Mainland? It creates a streamlined body and makes it one of the most elegant models of Bentley brand so far. European R-car was once one of the fastest four-seater sports cars at that time, and the eternal aesthetic design concept laid the foundation of contemporary European GT.
1959, Moulinas was formally incorporated into Bentley.
Moulinas? Now it's renamed Bentley? As the personal customization business department of Bentley Motor Company, Mulliner Factory in Crewe continuously creates unique and forward-looking customized products for Bentley. Although Mulliner's name appears in many Bentley cars, the most special customized Mulliner cars are those with completely customized body and design. Different from any car customization, Bentley Mulliner is the ultimate customization method beyond users' imagination, redefining more possibilities for people to own cars.
Mulliner is rooted in profound technical accumulation and manual inheritance. Perfect technology and forward-looking design concept not only make Mulliner famous in the world, but also make it the main advantage of Bentley in today's fierce competition. It can be said that Bentley has continued the essence of Moulinas, and Moulinas's exclusive customization has also made Bentley cars.
To say the essence of Mulliner, it must be Mulliner's exclusive custom car. Although the standard Bentley model is different enough and the limited edition Bentley is rare enough, Bentley's main product is to provide exclusive and unlimited body customization services for car owners who want Bentley to fully reflect their personal style. No matter what kind of customization needs, Bentley Mulliner can realize them one by one. Users can choose one or more that suit their own mind at will. If they are still not satisfied, Mulliner can also create exclusive body colors or materials for car owners. Here, the only limit is the user's imagination.
One of Moulinas's most classic masterpieces is a country specially built for the Queen of England? A limousine that appeared at the 50th anniversary celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne and the wedding of Prince William. This state? The limousine, with its unique design, only produced two cars. The Queen of England, her husband Prince Philip and the Queen's chief driver all participated in the design process of the car. Compared with Bentley's elegant R-model, this car is nearly one meter longer and the interior space is more spacious. The door is opened in a special way, with a split door design and a raised roof, which is convenient for the Queen to stand in the car before getting off. This royal car has achieved perfect performance and design, and fully demonstrated the exquisite skills and professionalism of the Bentley Moulinas team to the world.
It can be said that Mulliner provides endless decoration and modeling options for cars from the inside out. From car paint to leather interior, from wood skin to glossy interior, Bentley Moulinas followed the colors selected by customers and made perfect color matching, which finally formed a unique and attractive overall makeup of the car. Just like customizing for customers, Bentley Moulinas provides the ultimate customized experience for car owners. In the process of customization, customers will have the opportunity to be invited to Mulliner Studio in Crewe, England, to discuss visualization concepts and designs with designers and technicians. Here, experts will provide additional suggestions and inspirations according to the specific needs of customers, maximize the creativity of each step, and create exclusive cars that exceed expectations for car owners. Of course, whether to participate in the design of vehicles depends entirely on the wishes of customers.
If every manufacturing employee of Bentley is a master of automobile technology, then the senior technician working in Mulliner department is a master among the masters. Mulliner's exclusive customization team consists of designers, craftsmen, carpenters, metallurgical experts, leather technicians, embroidery craftsmen and automobile safety consultants. They are not only proficient in classic and modern automobile design, but also have unparalleled technology in their respective fields. This top team of technicians is the basis for Bentley to fully realize all the creative customization needs of users.
"Handmade" advocated by Mulliner is not only a slogan, but also embodies all the professional skills, experience and enthusiasm in the process of automobile carving. For example, it takes him four years to master 17 different processes. It takes 159 hours to build a Bentley speeding car. Among them, just a set of customized seats, from cutting, sewing to trimming, takes 30 hours of fine manual work to finally take shape. This customized leather seat was completed by the leather customization department 12 sewing female technician. Together, they have more than 360 years of manual experience.
Facing the coming century of the next brand, Bentley has also set a new development direction for the Mulliner department. In the future, the Mulliner department will cover three new business areas: Bentley Mulliner model (Bentley? Moulinas? Collections) team will continue to explore new possibilities of Bentley brand core cars; Bentley Moulinas Classic (Bentley? Moulinas? Classic) The team will devote itself to giving new life to the representative classic models of Bentley brand, such as restoring 1939 Bentley Corniche model and 4? Upgrade Bentley blower racing car to create a continuation model; Bentley Moulinas body customization (Bentley? Moulinas? Coach Building) team will focus on the future-oriented body customization process, which Bentley Moulinas announced at this year's Geneva Motor Show? Bacalar model is an example.
Therefore, don't think that Milina will only customize various exclusive parts for existing Bentley models. It is actually an independent car-making department. In addition to the amazing Bacalar we saw at this year's Geneva Motor Show, it is also an important task for Milina to regenerate and manufacture limited-edition replica models of various historical classic cars. Last year, they not only reborn the 1939 Bentley Corniche model, but also produced a limited number of 12 blower continuation models, which reproduced the contemporary technology and technology of this classic car 90 years ago.
As the first classic car project of Mulliner Department, it is a bold challenge for Milina Department to regenerate 1939 Bentley Corniche model. It was made by Mulliner's technicians with the original technical drawings of a manual restorer in Crewe, England. Car Bentley Corniche and Bentley Mark? The mechanical parts of the original car are carefully assembled with the newly-built body, and every detail is the same as that of the original car.
In another project, in order to ensure the original flavor of the continuation version of Blower, the original molds of the 1920s and a series of traditional handicraft tools will still be used, combined with the current advanced car-making technology. Most notably, engineers in Milina first put Mr. walter owen bentley (W.O.? Bentley's private blower racing car is broken down into individual parts, then catalogued according to each part, and comprehensively scanned in 3D, and finally a digital model of the whole car is created. In the end, it took Mulliner two years to build and assemble the parts of 12 blower continuation models, and these 12 models were equipped with supercharged 4? The continuation version of the L engine is almost the same as the classic racing car of 1939, with only a few minor design changes, just for modern safety.
So in the future, Mulliner can not only provide unique customization services, but also provide unique new car customization and classic car revival projects, thus making Mulliner a real "dream customization expert".
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