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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
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.
This is a digitally-modified version of the accompanying Northern General image. NCL 64L was one of thirty Willowbrook-bodied Daimler Fleetlines ordered by Maidstone & District Motor Services but diverted to Northern General. Although legally owned by the latter, it entered service as Gateshead & District fleet number 2824 in 1972. It was renumbered 4258 in 1975 and transferred to Northern on absorption of the Gateshead fleet the following year. After withdrawal in 1978, it was sold to Citybus, Belfast for further service and was withdrawn the following year after being maliciously damaged (14-Feb-13).
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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.
JC104 - Now on a 2017 Audi Q3
I was recently very kindly given a disc of old car show photos from the mid to late 70's which were found on glass slides in a skip and then scanned to disc, i thought i'd uploaded them to here, there are over 1100 images so it could take me a while!
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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West Midlands PTE fleet no 4041, this 1971 Daimler Fleetline is now owned by Aston Manor Road Transport Museum. Seen here at Walsall's Arboretum junction on a service between the Museum's base in Aldridge and Walsall town centre.
Hartlepool Transport 94 is parked, out of use, at the side of the depot. It is a Daimler CVG6 with Roe bodywork, new to West Hartlepool Corporation in 1953. It remained in service until 1974.
Looking rather careworn and bearing Cyril Percy Paige as the then General Manager, so pre 1963 (?) when Harry Taylor took over, the Crossley bodied Daimlers (all but one I think that was put off the road by the ministry in 1965) got a repaint which saw them through to 1966.
Saw this elsewhere in town back in 2009, though back then it had some centrecaps on its wheels. Didn't look overly smart at that time, so good that someone's keeping it going.
Daimler (GB) has no connection with the German Daimler or Daimler-Benz companies.
DAIMLER SET
Founded in 1886 and based in Coventry, Warwickshire the company became a subsidiary of BSA in 1910 and was aquired by Jaguar in 1960 and the group became part of the turbulent British Motor Holdings and subsequent British Leyland conglomerate. Jaguar-Daimler regained its independence in 1984 until a takeover by Ford in 1989. In March 2008 Ford sold its holdings to Tata of India with production remaining at Castle Bromwich Birmingham
Shot at Weston Park, Staffordshire 05.04.2010 Ref 58-025
Not a Dart of course, Daimler lost the argument with Dodge and had to drop it.
An unusual looking beast for sure, but 2645 found homes, even the Police had 30 of them.
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.
Daimler CVG6 D217, FYS999, boarding passengers for Victoria Park at Riverside Museum, 16th June, 2013.
1961 Daimler SP250. Brough. 19/4/2025. This isn't the first time I've photographed one of these cars, but they're pretty rare these days.
Mercedes-Benz Project Geländewagen. Original Mercedes-AMG G63 (Kraftstoffverbrauch kombiniert: 13,1 l/100 km; CO2-Emissionen kombiniert: 299 g/km) // Mercedes-Benz Project Gelaendewagen. Original Mercedes-AMG G63 (combined fuel consumption: 13.1 l/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 299 g/km)
Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC, (BR N293) / designo Diamantweiß bright / Exterior: AMG Line / Interior: AMG Line / Der neue Mercedes-Benz EQC - der erste Mercedes-Benz der Produkt- und Technologiemarke EQ. Mit seinem nahtlosen klaren Design ist der EQC ein Vorreiter einer avantgardistischen Elektro-Ästhetik mit wegweisenden Designdetails und markentypischen Farbakzenten außen wie innen. / Der EQC erhält das wegweisende Multimediasystem MBUX - Mercedes-Benz User Experience, ergänzt um zahlreiche EQ spezifische Inhalte wie beispielsweise die Anzeige von Reichweite, Ladezustand und Energiefluss. EQ optimierte Navigation, Fahrprogramme, Ladestrom und Abfahrtszeit lassen sich ebenfalls über MBUX bedienen und einstellen. / Der neue Mercedes-Benz ECQ (Stromverbrauch kombiniert: 22,2 kWh/100 km; CO2 Emissionen kombiniert: 0 g/km, Angaben vorläufig) // Mercedes-Benz EQC 400 4MATIC, (BR N293) / designo diamond white bright / Exterior: AMG Line / Interior: AMG Line / The new Mercedes-Benz EQC - the first Mercedes-Benz under the product and technology brand EQ. With its seamless, clear design, the EQC is a pioneer for an avant-garde electric look with trailblazing design details and colour highlights typical of the brand both inside and out. / The EQC features the innovative multimedia system MBUX - Mercedes-Benz User Experience - which has numerous EQ-specific functions such as the display of range, charge status and energy flow. EQ-optimised navigation, driving modes, charging current and departure time can also be controlled and set via MBUX. / The new Mercedes-Benz EQC (combined power consumption: 22.2 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km, provisional figures)