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Let's go back to the Southsea Spectacular bus rally held on Southsea Common on a very sunny Sunday in June 1981, now over 36 years ago!!
Present that day was preserved Thames Valley 1965 Bristol FLF6G / ECW H38/32F D22 FJB738C and then still active Thamesdown 1967 Daimler CVG6-30 / Northern Counties H40/30F 144 JAM144E.
This is one of the former Police vehicles that were exhibited at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018. The description of this car at the show read as follows:
'In the late 1950s, the Metropolitan Police had a major problem with what were called café racers. Groups of youths on motorbikes would gather together at a local café, put a record on the jukebox and then race their bikes along a set course getting back to the café before the record stopped playing. Accidents occurred and in an attempt to put a stop to the practice, the Met's proposal was to have a fast car that could actually catch the bikers. The existing fleet of Wolseley saloons was not up to the task so they looked instead at sports cars. The Daimler SP250 was the answer! This had a 2.5 litre lightweight V8 engine, capable of 123 mph and a 0-60 time of just over 10 seconds, which for 1959 was an excellent performance.
The Met bought 26 Darts between 1961 and 1964 and soon got them into service and used as high speed pursuit cars with a result that a number of speeding bikers were caught and the number of fatal road accidents dropped. Unlike today, the idea then was that you see a Police car and thereby slow down... no stealth tactics for these boys. Certainly visual and the start of the white sleeves and hats.
Each car was based at a separate Traffic garage situated over the London area. This particular car is fitted with the optional Borg Warner DG Automatic gearbox, and was originally purchased by the Metropolitan Police on the 1st June 1961. Automatic cars destined for Police use were modified by Daimler with a handle in the centre of the dashboard, which, when pulled locks the gearbox into second gear allowing a speed range from zero to 85 mph in the one gear. The gearbox normally runs in two gears only, with a 'low' ratio for manual selection if required. The top speed is higher than cars fitted with the manual gearbox. This car was fleet number 240T and fitted with the AT Head calibrated speedometer.
Quote: "Wheels were pressed steel not wire. Hubcaps used to fly off so were removed or nicked". It has excellent acceleration and a top speed in excess of 125 mph. The car is fitted with Dunlop disc brakes on all wheels, and was the first production car to be so fitted. The combination of high power and light weight enabled it to start from rest, attain 100 mph and come to rest all within 30 seconds.
This car is a multi award winner and thought to be one of the best examples of the seven or so remaining.'
Daimler Limousine Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society
B5CSC transferred to a 2010 Jaguar some time after 2014
n 303. 16 September 1972.
Hartlepool Corporation Daimler CVG/Roe, AEF 580, laying over in Hartlepool.
Another old photo scanned from the family archives! This is my son, Nick, taken when he was three years old in, 1977. The car is a 1956 Dailmler Conquest Century, photographed during the period of its resurrection!
Although rather ponderous by modern day standards, it was a delight to drive, & had the Daimler pre-selector gearbox & fluid flywheel, which all Daimlers had been fitted with since the 1920's, torsion bar suspension, & Girling hydro-mechanical brakes. The engine was a 2.5L OHV six, and returned a fuel consumption of around 22mpg, quite good for a car that weighed not far short of two tons! It was subsequently sold, for not a lot of money, I recall!
Nick, I am delighted to say, is still vey much around, and is now a design engineer with a specialist British engineering company!
I can't be absolutely certain what camera I took this with, almost certainly a Mamiya C22 with a 105mm lens, again, almost certainly, on Kodak Tri-X, but it could just have been a Zeiss Ikon Nettar, but looking at it, the perspective is a bit compressed for a 75mm lens. Scanned from an old 5"x 5" B&W print, @300dpi on an Epson V500, & tidied up in Gimp.
These hearses are based on the 1968-1992 Daimler DS420, also called Limousine.
Picture taken on the permanent exposition in the Uitvaart Museum 'Tot Zover' in Amsterdam.
'Tot Zover' is a museum that sheds us a light on traditions and rituals around saying farewell to our beloved ones.
The museum has permanent exposition rooms about rituals around burying in the many (religious) cultures that Holland houses. But it offers also room for temporary shows.
In one of those rooms there was this exhibition 'De Bedroefde Bolide-het grote lijkwagen retrospectief'.
At this moment you can visit a special exposition about scale model hearses.
See also: www.totzover.nl/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&...
Amsterdam-O., Watergraafsmeer, Kruislaan,
Jan. 7, 2015.
Daimler TB22 (1909)
Registration Number H 6779
DAIMLER SET
This Daimler TB22 is an open two seater with an additional dickie seat, it retains its original upholstery, fittings and equipment.
Built at Daimler, Coventry and bodied literally next door at Hewers Motor Bodies, Aldbourne Road, Coventry. It is the only known surviving Hewers bodied motor car. This model was the first Daimler model fitted with the Knight (no relation) sleeve valve engine. The Knight mascot on the engine mounted on the radiator is for the Knight engine. The present owner has had the car since 1995
Shot at the Enfield Pagaent 30,05,2010 Ref 55-97
Once again I took the camera to work and discovered this bus parked just a short distance from Torquay sea front. This Daimler Fleetline was one of twelve new to Southend Transport in April 1976. At that time its Northern Counties centre staircase body was dual-door and it was not open-top, but was decapitated whilst with them. It was number 395 in their fleet. It currently advertises two of Torbay's tourist attractions.
designed by Richard Rogers.
The three buildings designed by the practice for Daimler Chrysler on Berlin’s Linkstraße form part of the the Potsdamer Platz masterplan by Renzo Piano. B8 is predominantly residential, with retail areas on the ground, first and second floors.
In the original masterplan the three buildings are shown as closed blocks measuring c. 50 m square, but the design opens up the south-east side of the blocks facing the park. This building form allows light to penetrate into the courtyard, atrium and internal spaces, as well as providing all flats with unobstructed views out over the park.
The ratio of glazing areas to solid wall construction is determined by the orientation and analysis of heat losses and solar gains. Whereas the north-east and north-west façades have comparatively little glazing in order to
minimise heat loss during the winter months, the south-west and south-east elevations is generously glazed, with living areas opening onto the garden courtyard.
Conservatories or ‘winter gardens’ adjacent to these living areas maximise the passive use of solar energy. The ‘winter gardens’ act as direct solar gain spaces and buffer zones, with pre-heated air used to ventilate or warm the internal accommodation space in winter. Sun shading provided by aluminium louvres on sliding tracks prevents overheating in summer.
The double-height penthouses are fully glazed to the courtyard side. The glazing system is supported by a water-filled steel structure which acts as a radiator during the winter. Electronically operated sun-shading devices and opening windows minimise solar gain and maximise natural ventilation during the summer.
An Alexander bodied Daimler Fleetline new to McGill's Bus Service Ltd, Barrhead, in 1965, seen in St. James Street, Paisley, in an undated photograph thought to be taken about 1967. From a collection purchased on e-bay. Photographer not known.
Mercedes-Benz Tourismo 16 RHD M/3, Exterieur, basaltgrau metallic, OM 470 mit .
315 kW/428 PS, 10,7 L Hubraum, 8-Gang PowerShift-Getriebe, Bi-Xenon Scheinwerfer, .
Coach MediaRouter, Komfort-Kopfstützen, Länge/Breite/Höhe: 12.960/2.550/3.620 mm, Bestuhlung: 1/48 // Mercedes-Benz Tourismo 16 RHD M/3, Exterior, basalt gray metallic, OM 470 rated at 315 kW/428 hp, displacement 10.7 l, 8-speed PowerShift transmission, bi-xenon headlamps, Coach MediaRouter, comfort headrests, length/width/height: 12960/2550/3620 mm, seating: 1/48
Two Daimlers from different eras at Derby bus station. On the left a two door Fleetline as a One Man Operated bus and on the right a traditional front engined, rear platform half cab CVG6.
February 1980.
An ex Thomas Tilling bus, No20 was built in 1904.
When I was a schoolboy we used to visit Harold Goodey's yard in Twyford, he had one of these in fair condition and that Thames Iron Works coach that looks like a motorised stagecoach in a big shed.
CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake, Lack: designo magno alanitgrau, Innen: designo platinweiss pearl (X 218) 2012
The Super V8, also known as the Daimler Super Eight, was the most expensive model, with the XJR second. The Super V8, which debuted in the 2003 model year in the new X350 body style, was essentially a long-wheelbase, supercharged XJ8 with the more luxurious Vanden Plas, or Daimler interior.
Its primary competitor was the Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG. A distinctive wire mesh grille and chrome-finished side mirrors set the Super V8 and the XJR apart from the less expensive XJ saloons. In 2005, the Super V8 model was replaced by the Daimler Super Eight in all markets other than North America. The Daimler Super Eight was essentially the same car, but with the addition of a different grille, boxwood inlays in the wood veneer and several other interior luxuries as standard.
Daimler's US equivalent was no longer known as the Vanden Plas, but the Super V8. The Vanden Plas name was used on models that would be known as Sovereign elsewhere. Daimler has been the State Car for the British Prime Minister since the 1980s. For 2007, the premium model was the reintroduced Jaguar Sovereign when the Super V8 and Daimler versions were dropped.
Since then the Daimler badge hasn't been applied on another car. Although parent company TATA Steel hasn't officially retired the brand, it is still dormant, but with the promise that it may appear once again on another model, once again sporting that rippled grille.
A Daimler but do not recognise the model. Any Ideas?
At Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car club show, Brodsworth Hall 2nd July 2006
CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake, Lack: designo magno alanitgrau, Innen: designo platinweiss pearl (X 218) 2012
Had to look this one up. Daimler single-decker. There were Fleetlines with single-deck bodies ...not very numerous... but this appeared to have a high floor, as though to rise over a rear underfloor engine, making it, I thought, a Roadliner ...also uncommon. To Bus Lists On The Web, which gave it as a Daimler SRG6LX. Daimlers aren't really my Specialised Subject, but Fleetlines were CRG I remembered. To David Kaye's handy Buses and Trolleybuses Since 1945. Yes, the Roadliner was first shown at Earls Court in 1964, as the SRC6, signifying Single-deck, Rear Cummins 6-cylinder engine. The engine was a V-type ...not the sort of thing that would have gone down well in the workshops and inspection pits of the nation's bus operators. Mr Kaye's book was published in 1968: it appears that by 1970, when the vehicle in the photograph was new, a Gardner engine option was being offered in an attempt to propitiate the industry's chief engineers. The photo was taken in Dundee on Tuesday 26th June 1979.
My September 1974 visit to the north east culminated in a return via Darlington and the A1 to London: whilst in Darlington I was able to photograph the Corporation's fllet number 19, NHN 419 E, a 1967 Daimler "Roadliner" SRC6 with Roe dual doorway bodywork. The conversion of services to one man operation was widespread across the country at the time and the 65-capacity of the "Roadliner" - 47 setaed and 18 standing - would easily have been a match for the short rear platform Daimler double deckers being replaced in Darlington at the time as the conductors were removed. IMHO the design of the Roe body and the low access of the "Roadliner" would nott look out of place today.
GR9931 was a Daimler CVG6, new in 1948 to Sunderland Corporation and No 99 in that fleet. It had H30/26R bodywork by Massey. Sunderland Corporation disposed of the vehicle in 1963 and it is seen here in February 1965, having journeyed to Scotland and serving as a mobile showroom for bedding and upholstery. The trading name, printed in white and not easy to see in this shot is "Murest".
Newly arrived at Beamish Museum (today!) is their latest addition to the transport fleet, a 1964 Roe-bodied, Gardner-engined Daimler CCG5 registered 304 VHN, in Darlington Corporation livery.
The bus was new to Darlington Corporation as Fleet No.4 and was one of a batch of twelve similar vehicles purchased that year. This one was withdrawn in 1981 and is widely reported as being the last dual crewed bus in Darlington. (In fact dual crews returned briefly to Darlington using ex-Nottingham Fleetlines)
The bus is also unusual in that it has a "Gardner 100" badge below the front radiator grille. It appears to have always carried this badge, but it is the only bus that I can find that does so, and certainly the only one of the 1964 Darlington batch.
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