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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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Always my favourite of 'my era' of PMT double deckers were these chunky looking Alexander 'D Type' bodied Daimler Fleetlines. Never did they look better than in original form with more cream in the livery and with the reduced length Daimler 'propeller' badge. On the subject of the latter, it seems unthinkable in the days of stickers nowadays that a manufacturer would at one time proudly cast 'half a hundredweight' of aluminium to hang on each and every one of their products. Sadly, these symbols of pride didn't last too long in their original location as many were removed to adorn workshop walls, tool cupboards and tool boxes of fitters.
5024 VT was from the 1964 delivery and was seen here in downtown Stoke posed for a company publicity shot when new. PMT were one of very few operators to specify two piece angled flat glass windscreens with this body rather then the more usual curved ones.
0297 Maidstone & District. 6067 (67YKT) Daimler Fleetline - Northern Counties. {1963}. Borough Green, 3 April 1977.
This 124-year-old Daimler 12hp, AA16, holds a significant place in British motoring history. John Montagu MP acquired it new in May 1899 and regularly drove it from the New Forest to London. That summer, it became the first petrol-engined vehicle to enter the Palace Yard of the House of Commons.
This vehicle is on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
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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Basking in the afternoon sun at Beamish Museum is this 1910 Daimler 22hp tourer registered, AO 1064. Note the familiar Daimler fluted radiator top tank.
This car has had a complete repaint within the last ten years, because it used to be cream with red wheels and the radiator was unpainted alloy rather than black.
The car was at Beamish as part of the Great North Steam Fair of 2019.
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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.
One of the first wrap-round adverts. The design was based on airliner windows. And yes, the nearside wheel was on the pavement!
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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1974 Daimler Fleetline CRL6 Park Royal H59/41F
New to London Transport, no. DMS796 (TGX796M)
Original configuration was H44/24D
Crich Tramway village
Nr Matlock
Derbyshire
UK
23 June 2018
Huddersfield Daimler bus number 472 at Crich Tramway Village.
1966 registration.
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.
Bootlid up - in the workshops at the British Motor Museum
1996 concept car - to mark the centenary of Daimler.
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...
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.
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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.