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1959 Daimler Dart,.One of the best V8 engines ever, (IMO) The photo was taken at Oulton Park Cheshire.
Another update, the last of the year!
Basically, I redid most of it in order to be able to use the larger wheels. Corrected a ton of mistakes from the previous and improved the structural strength.
Assigned it to the Recce Regt. of the 49th Infantry ( The Polar Bear Butchers ) that fought alongside the 8th Arm.
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Happy New Year!
Another batch of ex-Birmingham Daimlers has arrived at Birds Commercial Motors at Stratford-upon-Avon. They are HOV 811, 810, 814, all of them are 1948 Daimler CVD with Daimler CD6 engines and Metro-Cammell bodies, the Shell pump is selling petrol at 4/10d a gallon.
To the right is the A34 Stratford Road, deserted apart from a carefree cyclist, today it is permanently jammed 7 days a week. Flower's Brewery dominates the scene producing their fine ales that were very popular in Stratford-upon-Avon and its surroundings.
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Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX / Alexander at Dobcross on service 183 (Manchester - Uppermill). Vehicle acquired from North Western Road Car when that company was split up in 1972.
One of the first wrap-round adverts. The design was based on airliner windows. And yes, the nearside wheel was on the pavement!
TCS103 was a Daimler CVG6LX.30DD / Northern Counties H41/33F purchased new by A1 Service member Brown's of Dreghorn in February 1962, while PAG764H was a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX / Alexander D Type H44/31F new to Murray of Saltcoats in March 1970 seen together at Kilmarnock bus station.
1950 Northern Counties bodied Daimler CVD6, formerly no.59, renumbered 103 in 1961. Seen at the Tame Street depot in Stalybridge, connected to one of the electric warming points designed to warm the buses before going into service, a most civilised arrangement.
By an unknown photographer, in my collection
Gleaming in the afternoon sunlight at Beamish Museum is this magnificently restored 1954 Gardner-engined Daimler CVG6 bus. The Weymann bodied ex-Rotherham Corporation bus took well over twenty years to restore to an extremely high standard of finish and has recently become a prized part of the museum's ever expanding bus fleet. The ultimate aim is to use the bus in the proposed new 1950's area of the museum, but occasional use is expected before that time.
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Daimler Majestic Major, Muzeum Pojazdów Zabytkowych Automobilklubu Śląskiego, ul. Wolności, Zabrze, 21 kwietnia 2013 r.
Limuzyna z 1966 r. przez siedem lat jeździła na dworze brytyjskiej Królowej Matki Elżbiety.
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Dailmler Majestic Major, Museum of Historical Vehicles of the Silesian Motor Club, Wolności str., Zabrze, April 21, 2013
The 1966 limousine was in service of the British Queen Mother Elizabeth court for seven years.
Nearly 70 years old - a Daimler works on a normal public service duty in September 2018.
Following the second world war there was a need to obtain new buses as quickly as could be arranged and Edinburgh Corporation Transport purchased seventy-two of these Daimlers in the Spring of 1949. The design was based on the same as the ones for Birmingham Corporation which included a pre-selector type of gearbox.
The 72 Daimler CVG6's were fitted with Metro-Cammell bodies and number 135 (FSC 182) worked out of Central garage and thereafter to Marine when it opened in December 1962. By this time it was being used only for peak-period services and was eventually withdrawn in 1967.
135 is seen at the Newhaven terminus and about to take on another journey all the way through town and out to the by-pass at Burdiehouse - eh and with a full load for most of the time too! The hills up Leith, Newington and Liberton Brae would be a test even for some of the Gemini's not to speak of this beauty.
Across the road from the previous shot, a classic line up of Coventry Daimler deckers load at the top of Trinity Street, headed by Fleetline/Park Royal 75Y (SWK 75J) which was new in 1970. This is followed by CVG6/Metro-Cammells 316Y (316 CRW) and 234Y (VWK 234), new in 1963 and 1958 respectively. Bringing up the rear is another Fleetline but with an East Lancs body.
Bootlid up - in the workshops at the British Motor Museum
1996 concept car - to mark the centenary of Daimler.
Inconsiderate parking is nothing new. No doubt the people at the stop are wondering why the bus is late. This is Hodford Rd, Golders Grn.
The very first Daimler Fleetline bus completed was 7000HP. The vehicle was painted into the then Birmingham City Transport colours, and used as a demonstrator vehicle. The picture, a rare publicity photograph shows the vehicle in Broadgate, Coventry when new in 1960.
The bus was clearly intended to impress Birmingham City Transport, which it did, as BCT went on to order large numbers of the type. It is understood that BCT had reserved the registration 3229VP for the vehicle, but Daimler decided to register it in Coventry, and so it became 7000HP.
7000HP was fitted with three very different types of engine during its life. It originally sported a CD6 Daimler oil engine from new, but in 1962 this was replaced with a more traditional Gardner 6LX oil engine. However, the Gardner unit was removed in the 1960s and a Cummins V6-200 series engine was fitted in its place, this it carried to the end.
By a strange twist of fate, both the first and last Fleetlines built were both destroyed by fire:
7000 HP, which had passed to Blue Bus Services (Tailby & George) of Willington and later to Derby Borough Transport, was destroyed in a fire at the former Blue Bus, Willington depot on 5 January 1976.
The last-built chassis, former South Notts ECW-bodied SCH 117X, was destroyed in a fire at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre on 21 February 2007, after it had been bought by preservationists.
Here's a link to some old news reel footage that features 7000HP, the bus looks to be outside of Lea Hall Garage, but I stand to be corrected. www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midland-montage-2212196...
had a course to go on yesterday so thought I would grab a few churches so a bonus one with a wedding and an old classic
,,,the bride is safely in the church
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An exhibit at the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust..
Car: Daimler SP 250.
Engine: 2547cc V8.
Year of manufacture: 1959.
Date of first registration in the UK: 24th March 1959.
Place of registration: Coventry.
Date of last MOT: No online MOT history.
Mileage at last MOT: Not known.
Date of last V5 issued: 6th August 2019.
Date taken: 16th April 2024.
This fine old bus was in service at Swindon. It was a Daimler CVG5 with Park Royal B35C body new in January 1948. Unusually for Birds it had not made it into the pit before being robbed of the front wheels, it stood on the muddy drive pushed into the fence Birds shared with the Post Office yard next door. The rear view shows us that it was propelled by the usual Birds method of driving another vehicle into the back of it and just shoving until the victim could go no further. Birds had 2 (that I saw) from this batch, the other being EMW 902.
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