Fighting Daimler
Not something I expected to find at yesterday’s car show at Brandon FL. I recognised it at once from the Dinky Toys model of the 1950s as a Ferret scout car - a toy I long yearned for. The Ferret had a long history with the British Army and Commonwealth forces, serving between 1952 and 1991 in the case of the British Army. This example had been in Canadian Army service. A total of 4,409 Ferrets were produced between 1952 and 1962.
The Ferret had a 2-man crew, its armament comprising a light machine gun. One fact that I had forgotten was that the Ferret was produced in Coventry by the UK Daimler company, a name more widely associated with luxury limousines once favoured by the Royal Family and buses that were once popular with British municipal operators. The common denominator between these diverse product lines was Daimler’s use of the Wilson pre-selector gearbox.
Fighting Daimler
Not something I expected to find at yesterday’s car show at Brandon FL. I recognised it at once from the Dinky Toys model of the 1950s as a Ferret scout car - a toy I long yearned for. The Ferret had a long history with the British Army and Commonwealth forces, serving between 1952 and 1991 in the case of the British Army. This example had been in Canadian Army service. A total of 4,409 Ferrets were produced between 1952 and 1962.
The Ferret had a 2-man crew, its armament comprising a light machine gun. One fact that I had forgotten was that the Ferret was produced in Coventry by the UK Daimler company, a name more widely associated with luxury limousines once favoured by the Royal Family and buses that were once popular with British municipal operators. The common denominator between these diverse product lines was Daimler’s use of the Wilson pre-selector gearbox.