1896, Gottlieb Daimler made the world’s first truck looked like a cart with an engine and without a drawbar. What set it in motion was a “Phoenix” engine with a displacement of 1.06 liters. Daimler linked it to the rear axle with a belt.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/594

63 Daimler SP250... thanks Kim! Adding to my list of UGLY cars that lazy list makers never show, while they repeat the typical list of Aztec and Pacer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_SP250#/media/File:1963_Daimler_SP250_3Daimler_SP250.jpg

I looked to see if I had this on the list of UGLY yet, but I hadn't. I did have that in 1964 Scotland Yard bought a dozen to use as police cars! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/09/1964-daimler-sp250-police-specification.html

World renowned image created by F. Zwickl. When you ordered one of these cars this cigarette case was a present.

https://vintageautoposters.com/products/austro-daimler-cigarette-case

Lady Norah Docker had a knack for marrying well, surpassed only by her talent for designing expensive cars (and getting someone else to foot the bill.)

She was born in 1906, and her father part-owned an auto dealership, and committed suicide when she was 16, so she went to work to support herself, working as a dance hostess at the Café de Paris in London.

She was smart, and made the most of her opportunities, using her job on the dance floor to befriend the 9th Duke of Marlborough, as well as a wine merchant, and when he died in 1945, she took up with the president of  luxury goods company who died in 1948. She hit the jackpot in 1949, with the third husband, Sir Bernard Docker, then chairman of a British Daimler.

She was made a director of Hooper’s, then Daimler’s body-building company, and bought Glandyfi Castle in Wales for £12,500, and furnished it with £25,000, both sums coming from company coffers. A £5,000 bill was also presented to Daimler for the mink-covered outfit she wore to the 1956 Paris Motor Show.

The parts normally chrome plated got real gold instead, the instrument panel was made of ivory, and the interior was covered in zebra hide. She used zebra “Because mink is too hot to sit on”

I remember posting the gold and zebra car years ago, but I hadn't heard enough about her then to look into the cars she designed https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/1955-golden-zebra-daimler-with-zebra.html

   

https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/lady-norah-docker-daimler-car-worlds-own-marie-antoinette

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g41517862/2022-audrain-concours-delegance-in-newport/

1926 Daimler 45 HP Salon Cabriolet "Star of India" by Barker

 

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo22/monterey/lots/p0029-1926-daimler-45-hp-salon-cabriolet-star-of-india-by-barker/1252993

David just sent me this (how cool!) Thanks David!

A little something you’ll like. Absolutely true.

My friends Angela and Andrew have been married for about 35 years, having wed in a church in Haslemere, Surrey. They still live within walking distance of that church. As a bride, Angela was taken to the wedding in a Daimler Mk 10 that belonged to her father. Father died in the mid 1980s, not long after the wedding.

This August their son (Ian, named after Angela’s late father) is marrying in the same church, and his bride fancied a ride to the church in a classic car of some sort. Not fussy about what, but a limo rather than a sports car.

Angela and Andrew decided to go down the the local annual car show on Lion Green in Shottermill, Haslemere – you blogged about it a few years ago. The plan was to find something suitable and ask the owner if it could be hired for the day.

Partway around the show they spot an unattended Daimler Mk 10. Angela recognised the car – it was the same one her father owned all those years ago. The owner eventually returned, and when they asked if the car could be rented offered its use for free.

Just a nice thing to share with you....

DB

Not just another old jag.... it's the Queen's custom Daimler from 1984, coming to auction

This Daimler was delivered new in October 1984 to Buckingham Palace for the personal use of none other than Her Majesty The Queen, Elizabeth II. Completed at Jaguar’s Coventry facility in the summer of 1984

it was used as Her Majesty’s personal car and in local and low-profile engagements. Some 12,000 miles were accrued during that time, before it was replaced in 1990 by another vehicle. It continued to be used by family members and the Royal Security before being returned and kept at the factory with some 29,000 miles recorded with numerous members of the royal family and other dignitaries as passengers.

Equipped with every available option when new, bespoke items include a blue convoy light fitted in front of the rear-view mirror to enable security teams to identify the car more easily at night and to be more visible in the event of a security threat to the Queen. A full-length rear seat cushion was installed in lieu of the standard twin cushion—for the comfort of HRH’s three pet corgis to ride more securely and comfortably.

https://backoffice.rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf19/london/lots/r0041-1984-daimler-double-six-long-wheelbase-saloon/814466

While clearing out the back yard shrubbery... they found a car buried under rocks, dirt, and plants

they found the identification plate, and the license plate GUK 880

They didn't get a precise year and model though, the best guess is a 1949 Daimler.  From the remains, it looks like the car used to be black and have dark red leather upholstery.

The house was built in the 1950s or 1960s, but this part of the garden was purchased later from a farmer. The previous owners had been in possession of the property since it was new, but it is not possible to ask them about the vehicle. Mrs Ward said she had contacted her estate agent to see if they can get in touch with the former owners’ daughter.

No one yet has mentioned if they've ever heard of the car being buried in the yard only 70 years ago... you'd think someone would recall such a thing, in the small town of St Peter's on the island of Guernsey

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/family-finds-mysterious-69-year-old-classic-car-buried-in-yard
https://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/barn-find-daimler-no-its-rockery-find
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/05/rockery-turns-out-to-be-a-buried-daimler/
https://www.autoclassics.com/posts/news/daimler-buried-in-back-yard
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-43638944
Tip of the hat to https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/04/07/four-links-motorcycle-bicentennial-bessie-b-stringfield-helene-rother-buried-daimler/

1913 Daimler on a honeymoon tour

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.320850715162524&type=3

The Royal Marine Artillery used the Daimler-Foster Heavy Tractor to haul it's huge 6 inch and 12 inch gun barrels, and also parts of those guns.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/173218-ww1-military-motors-1916-set-x-50-cards/?page=94

a good design allows for a simple adaptation to make a dual purpose able item, like a truck/trailer towing, or a sofa sleeper, or a draftsmans table, or this tractor / train engine

in the above, visible on the far side rear rim, they bolted on a flange

and that made this tractor able to roll on rails as the front rims were made with flanges and the right distance apart

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/173218-ww1-military-motors-1916-set-x-50-cards/?page=93

if the tractor looks a little familiar, maybe you're remembering the trench crosser http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-english-wheel-tank-trench-crosser.html

1912 Daimler Mercedes history and development

https://www.facebook.com/groups/lecyclecaristebelge/permalink/1661317717265974/

looks like the tires and rims are all wood.... but the middle strip is probably rubber. 1919 Daimler DZ

http://anyskin.tumblr.com/post/87085245172/fuckyeahconceptcarz-1919-daimler-dz#notes

1 000 miles Irish Tour 1901 - Daimler

http://anyskin.tumblr.com/image/106596979557

1948 Daimler DE36 Drophead

1964 Daimler SP250 'Police Specification' Roadster

Can you believe that the cops got away with buying sports cars like this in 1964? For (supposedly) high speed pursuits?

True story, Scotland Yard, metro division bought at least 2 dozen of these

Full story and gallery at https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22725/lot/311/  via  http://thesteepletimes.com/opulence-splendour/chitty-chitty-crash-crash/

a premier Daimler bus, 1898

Found on http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/

Daimler and Daimler AG, and Daimler Benz, etc etc etc... I've been meaning to learn what is the history

History

Daimler AG is a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and engines, which dates back more than a century.
An Agreement of Mutual Interest was signed on May 1, 1924 between Benz & Cie (founded 1883) of Karl Benz and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (founded 1890) of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.
(So that explains Maybach's and Benz's connection!)

Both companies continued to manufacture their separate automobile and internal combustion engine brands until, on June 28, 1926, when Benz & Cie. and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft AG formally merged—becoming Daimler-Benz AG—and agreed that thereafter, all of the factories would use the brand name of Mercedes-Benz on their automobiles. (below I get to where the name Mercedes suddenly pops into this corporate identity, as no one in the company, or company mergers was ever named Mercedes)

In 2007, when the Chrysler group was sold off to Cerberus Capital Management, the name of the parent company was changed to simply "Daimler AG".

Timeline of Daimler AG

Benz & Company, 1883–1926
Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft AG, 1890–1926
Daimler-Benz AG, 1926–1998
DaimlerChrysler AG, 1998–2007
Daimler AG, 2007–present

Mercedes

Mercedes was a brand of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG). DMG which began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler.

 Although the name was not lodged as a trade name until 23 June 1902 and had to wait until 26 September to be registered legally, the brand name eventually would be applied to an automobile model built by Wilhelm Maybach to specifications by Emil Jellinek that was delivered to him on 22 December 1900.

 By Jellinek's contract, the new model contained a newly designed engine designated "Daimler-Mercedes". This engine name is the first instance of the use of the name, Mercedes, by DMG. The automobile model would later be called, the Mercedes 35 hp.

An Austrian diplomat based in Nice, a business man running a profitable business selling cars, and a racing enthusiast, Jellinek had been racing DMG automobiles under the pseudonym Mercédès, after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek.

Later he contracted with DMG for a small series of dedicated sports cars containing an engine that officially bore his daughter's name. He raced them very successfully, gaining recognition that increased interest in customers and Jellinek was placed on the board of directors of DMG. This model was a significant advancement in the history of automobiles.

The model was released for sale in 1901 under the name of Mercedes 35 hp and, because of the success of the model, DMG began to apply the name as a series to other models such as, Mercedes 8/11 hp and Mercedes 40 hp Simplex. Jellinek seems to have become obsessed with the name and even had his name changed to Jellinek-Mercedes.

Maybach quit DMG in 1907 and started up his own business.

The name, Mercedes, later was used to represent DMG in another new brand name, Mercedes-Benz, created in 1926 when it was applied to all vehicles produced by the new company, Daimler-Benz AG, resulting from the merger of Benz & Cie. and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in that year.

The last name of Karl Benz was retained in the new brand, but since DMG had sold exclusive licences to foreign companies(maybe this is the British car company Daimler), they couldn't use the name of their founder, Daimler, legally in all countries and decided to use the name of their most popular model. Since Jellinek was a member of the board of directors by the time of the merger, the name was promoted for continued good luck to the new company.

all above info from http://en.wikipedia.org

Daimler the British car company

Gottlieb Daimler studied machine construction at the Stuttgart Polytechnic from 1857-59 and during that time he was introduced to the highly developed level of machine construction in Britain. In 1885 Daimler, together with Maybach began work on the first engines that were designed specifically for use in motor vehicles.

They abandoned the existing conventional, open, horizontal type design with an external flywheel, and arranged the engine to stand upright with an internal flywheel, and a casting that was sealed against oil and dust. The engine's output was 0.37KW (0.5bhp), had a cubic capacity of 164cc, weighed 60kg and produced 700 revolutions per minute.

After that, Daimler and Maybach turned to the problem of liquid fuel. Finally, they found the best combustible mixture was 91% air and 9% petrol with a specific gravity of 0.68 g/cubic cm. This engine was equipped with a carburettor and was built into a wooden frame.

 Daimler gave this engine a higher output, up to 0.76KW (1bhp) and built it into a coach body. He made his first trip around Bad Cannstatt in this vehicle in September 1886. Later, this engine proved to be excellent for driving motorboats. In 1887, Daimler purchased a small factory so he could produce and sell the engine. This two-cylinder V-engine had an output of 1.5KW (2hp) Gottlieb Daimler died on 6th March 1900.

Fredrick Simms an Englishman born in Hamburg, was on the lookout for a power source to use in his 'Aerial Flights' (overhead railcar) and befriended Daimler, who at that time was using his new engine in motorboats. Simms saw the potential for marketing this engine in Britain. He took up the patent rights and formed a company in 1893 called 'The Daimler Motor Syndicate Ltd'.

He then started to build the boats on Eel Pie Island for use on the Thames, using the imported Daimler engines to power them. In 1895, a businessman named Harry J. Lawson saw an opportunity to build cars using the Daimler engine and duly bought up all the patents he could, including the rights to the Daimler engine from Simms.

In 1898, the Great Horsless Carriage Company, which had constructed the bodies for the Daimler chassis had gone into liquidation and from it, a new company, called the Motor Manufacturing Company was formed. Having land leased from Daimler, they built a forge and went into production using their own engines and chassis. Also, in the same year, the original Daimler motor syndicate, which had become the British Motor Syndicate, now became the British Motor Company. By this time, it was struggling to hold onto the patents which Harry J. Lawson had originally bought and had Licensed to the Daimler Motor Company and other motor manufacturers.

Simms, together with Robert Bosch, had now developed a low-tension magneto, but the Daimler engineers were not convinced of the merits of electric ignition. The Daimler Company agreed to carry out tests but it decreased the horsepower of the motor, so was dismissed. Fortunately, E.W. Lewis, the company's chief draftsman, had designed his own contact breaker which proved successful and was fitted to King Edward VII's first car. Lewis later joined the Rover Company and designed their first motor cycle and early cars. The Motor Manufacturing Company that shared the Coventry site with Daimler ran into difficulties, and in 1905 was taken over by Daimler.
British Daimler info from http://www.daimler.co.uk

the beauty of designs, part 2 of "online Concours de Elegance" I started last July, here are the Pre WW2 vehicles

1903 Ford model a runabout

1904 Auburn runabout

1909 highwheeler

1910 Hotchkiss Type V

1910 Baker Electric Victoria Roadster

1911 Leon-Bollee G1 Double Berline de Voyage

1921 Farman Super Sport Torpedo

1923 Kissel Model 6-45 Speedster

1925 Rolls-Royce P1 Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/1925-rolls-royce-aerodynamic-coupe.html

1927 Voisin C7 sedan

1929 Ruxton Roadster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/ruxton-legendary-in-classic-american.html

1929 Alfa Romeo 6c1750 supersport

1929 Du Pont Model G Speedster

1931 Bucciali Tav-8-32 Sedan by Saotchik

1931 Packard Waterhouse Convertible Victoria

1932 Daimler Double-Six Sport Saloon

1933 Mitsubishi PX33 4WD Diesel

1934 Hupmobile Aerodynamic

1936 Panhard Dynamic

1937 Chrysler Airflow

1937 Willys sedan

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta coachwork by Touring

1942 Paris Rhone BabyRhone II

For more see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/online-concours-de-elegance-is-best.html