Clocking off: Bentley opts for a frugal four-week Christmas holiday

And, in 1938, it was the railway connections that attracted Rolls-Royce, of which Bentley was then part. The plant, built on potato fields on the outskirts of the town, employed 10,000 at its peak in 1943, and, in 1946, produced its first Bentley, the Mark VI. Over the years "Royces" trained...