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Running in from Martin's Corner. Looking at the next few shots makes me think I was due for an eyesight check as theyaren't as in focus as they could be!!!
Two classics for the price of one. A 1963 Daimler V8 and a 1974 Triumph all in one place. The Triumph looks like it might be minus it's engine at the moment as it is sitting a bit high off the ground. I blacked out the registration plates because they were on private property when I took this picture.
WMPTE 'Jumbo' Fleetline 3978 (SOE 978H) was the penultimate of a batch of 99 ordered by Birmingham City Transport but delivered to the PTE (the 100th, 3980, was diverted to South Africa as a Daimler Demonstrator). It's seen at Dorridge Station in the company of Ford A-Series 4736 (JOV 736P) on the short-lived Dial-a-Bus duties.
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada - July 24, 2004 : 1963 Daimler SP250 at British Automobile Touring Association of Nova Scotia Car Show at Scot Manor, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
Daimler PPX 790
Image courtesy Jeff Bloxham
I'm going to do the Monte Carlo Rally Historique in this Daimler with Peter Baker and Guy Loveridge at the end of January 2020.
Con amor y cariño, se puede convertir en el coche de abajo.
With loving and tender care, it can become the car below.
The Daimler SP250 is a sports car which was built by British manufacturer Daimler in Coventry from 1959 to 1964
The SP250 was originally known as the Daimler Dart, however Daimler were soon forced to drop the Dart name when threatened with legal action by Chrysler’s Dodge division, and the car was then renamed the Daimler SP250.
It was launched at the 1959 New York Motor Show, and its greatest success was in the North American market. It had a fibreglass body, four-wheel Girling disc brakes, and a 2.5-litre Hemi-head V8 engine designed by Edward Turner. The car was described as a 2+2, but the bench-like rear seat offered very limited leg room unless the front seats were pushed fully forward. Thirty black Daimler Darts with the Borg-Warner Model 8 3-speed automatic were used by the British Metropolitan Police.
ManufacturerThe Daimler Company Limited
Also calledDaimler Dart
Production1959–1964
ClassSports car
Body style2-seat open car
LayoutFR layout
Engine2.5 litre iron-block V-8 140 HP[1]
Transmission4-speed manual
3-speed automatic
Wheelbase92 in (2,337 mm)[2]
Length165 in (4,191 mm)[2]
Width60 in (1,524 mm)[2]
Height50.25 in (1,276 mm)[2]
Kerb weight2,070 lb
1998 Daimler V8 auto.
3996cc.
Last MoT test expired in August 2018 (SORN).
It failed a test in February 2019 -
Nearside front headlamp not working on dipped beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Offside front headlamp not working on dipped beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Nearside front headlamp not working on main beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Offside front headlamp not working on main beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Nearside front headlamp aim not tested (4.1.2 (b)) - Major
Offside front headlamp aim not tested (4.1.2 (b)) - Major
Offside front lower exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases exhaust blow at cat (6.1.2 (a)) - Major
Nearside rear brake pipe excessively corroded (1.1.11 (c)) - Major
Offside rear brake pipe excessively corroded (1.1.11 (c)) - Major
Nearside rear brake cable has restricted free movement handbrake cable siezed (1.1.15 (e)) - Major
Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an abs fault (1.6 (b)) - Major
Electronic stability control warning lamp indicates a fault (7.12 (e)) - Major
Offside rear service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) - Major
Nearside front service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) - Major
Offside front service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) - Major
Offside seat belt anchorage prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced sill / floor (7.1.1 (a) (i)) - Major
Parking brake efficiency below requirements (1.4.2 (a) (i)) - Major
Here's another ruined limousine I found in the area. This is a Daimler DS420 Limousine, and it was awful. There were Rolls-Royce badges all over the place, completely incorrect wheels, painted refrigerator white, and just everything about it was tacky and utter garbage. This was parked outside of a church for a wedding in Ridgefield, Connecticut
Following on with Daimler deliveries, Northampton Transport shunned buses of archaic design such as that in the previous posting and entered the new fangled world of the rear engined. One man operation was sweeping the country and clearly a rear entrance half cab would not be suitable for the new times. I don't know whether the Corporation actually took the plunge with 'OMO' but these single deckers have been more suited. Twenty Willowbrook bodied SRL6-36 (Leyland 680 engined) single deck Fleetlines were delivered in 1973 and very handsome buses they were too in my opinion, but I gather they weren't universally liked. I've no real idea why, but would guess that the usual Fleetline traits of heavy steering, pedestrian performance and, in the case of 36ft single deckers, structural issues would all come into it somewhere.
Still, on a sunny July day in 1980 a fine looking No 4, UNH 4L exits the new, but dark and dingy Greyfriars Bus Station. Also just making it into the shot is one of the old order, a Roe bodied CVG6 and also a representitive of the very new order for Alexander bodied Bristol VRs.
Another trip to the MoT test station yesterday, but with something a little less mundane.
Northampton Corporation it appeared, didn't like change. As late as 1968 they specified this batch of very conservative Roe bodied rear platform entrance Daimler CVG6 half cabs. Beyond that, they had Daimler fit vacuum brakes and pre-select gearboxes when air brakes and semi-auto boxes would have been the obvious choice should anyone else still want a bus to such archaic design. In their favour though, I guess they were rugged, reliable and economical as normally found with machines which are uncomplicated.
GNH 258F is nowadays from the Quantock Motor Services fleet of Taunton, it's seen here yesterday with Sandbach's Alms Houses as a backdrop on the return journey from the test station.
Zagreb - Tehnički muzej Nikola Tesla - Avionski klipni motor Daimler-Benz Model 601 B1, Njemačka, 1939.
The most luxurious editions of Jaguar (outside the USA) wore the Daimler brand. Quite confusing because the English Daimlers have nothing in common with the German cars from Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), except for their namegiver Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900). Since 2007 the Daimler brand is no longer used by Jaguar. This generation of the Daimler was built between 1994 and 1997.
Some pictures taken by the late Michael Cleary. December 1983.
Following its trip earlier in the day on route 47 in bright sunshine, the 1967 Daimler clearly did another trip later.
Daimler "Дэймлер"
Daimler известна как британская компания, однако названием своим она обязана конструктору ГЬтлибу Даймлеру (Gottlieb Daimler) из Германии, создавшему первый в мире 4-колесный автомобиль. В Германии в 1901 г. марку Daimler сменило название Mercedes (Мерседес). Рассказ о Mercedes еще впереди. Первые британские автомобили Daimler изготовили в 1896 г. в Ковентри по лицензии немецкой фирмы.
Preserved Daimler Fleetline Fleet Number 40 Reg ALJ 340B this was 1 of 2 Demonstrator Daimler Fleetlines with MH Cars bodywork were built to Belfast corporation transport specification but never ran in service in Belfast but were bought by Bournemouth corporation transport and this bus became fleet number 40 it is now Preserved in Belfast corporation transport livery
Saturday 12th May 2018 was the 50th Anniversary of the closure of the Belfast Corporation Trolleybus system in 1968. so on Sunday 20th may a tour was take of some of the Trolleybus terminus
Preserved Daimler Fleetline Fleet Number 40 Reg ALJ 340B this was 1 of 2 Demonstrator Daimler Fleetlines with MH Cars bodywork were built to Belfast corporation transport specification but never ran in service in Belfast but were bought by Bournemouth corporation transport and this bus became fleet number 40 it is now Preserved in Belfast corporation transport livery
Saturday 12th May 2018 was the 50th Anniversary of the closure of the Belfast Corporation Trolleybus system in 1968. so on Sunday 20th may a tour was take of some of the Trolleybus terminus
Damiler CVD650-30. Alexander H41/32R. New: March 1958.(D217) is the first 30ft-long bus bought by Glasgow Corporation Transport. It turned out to be the only long rear-entrance Daimler, all others being the standard length of 27ft 6in. Seen outside The Kelvin Hall Transport Museum just before closure on April 2010
1952 Daimler Empress.
So appropriate for this Jubilee Weekend. 70 years young and still going strong, and drawing admiring glances.
London Transport DMS class Daimler Fleetline by EFE. Adverts removed and replaced with new ones with one panel red to show a replaced panel. I may go over this with a lighter matt red to simulate undercoat.
As the DMS wasn't really loved that much in London Transport service the bus has been weathered using chalks stippled on with an old paintbrush and then sealed with a matt varnish.