On the 10th of October Bentley Motors celebrated the official opening of its new campus. The company’s entire industry-leading facilities are now encompassed within a single site in Crewe, England, and a convoy of Bentley cars marked the occasion as the 1929 4½-litre supercharged team car, the Blower Continuation Series ‘Car Zero’ and a range of current-generation Bentleys paraded down Pyms Lane. The creation of the campus, home to around 4,000 Bentley colleagues, follows years of planning, consultation and positive support from Cheshire East Council. Pyms Lane and Sunnybank Road, two roads that previously traversed through Bentley’s headquarters, are now closed to the public and enable a safer, more efficient and secure modern manufacturing facility that can develop and expand in line with Bentley’s long-term aspirations.
Pyms Lane has remained the focal point for Bentley’s headquarters in Crewe since the company arrived in 1938. This will only increase with Bentley’s plans to develop that area of the site next year, with the opening of an engineering test centre and R&D building – both of which will further support Bentley’s journey towards electrification. This was outlined as part of Bentley’s November Beyond100 strategic announcement, which committed to offer truly sustainable luxury, reinventing every aspect of its business to become an end-to-end carbon neutral organisation as it embarks on its second century. This includes switching its model range to offer exclusively plug-in hybrid or battery electric vehicles by 2026, and full electric vehicles only by 2030.