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Daimler GB 1897-2009 - the luxury Jaguar

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Created in 2015

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Roger Gloor

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Daimler (1965) - with the body of its corporate brother Jaguar and the 2.4-liter Daimler V8 engine - Geneva Motor Show 1965

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Daimler Sportsman Saloon (1955) - larger rear window and curved luggage compartment - Geneva Motor Show 1955

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Daimer Regency Mk II Saloon from 1954, (6 cyl., 3468 or 4617 cm3, 108 or 129 hp)

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Daimler Regency Coupé Ghia Suisse (1955) - much talked about and admired - Geneva Motor Show 1955

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Daimler Regency Coupé Ghia Suisse (1955) - one of the first Daimler chassis to be made available to a coachbuilder in continental Europe, in this case Ghia Lugano - Geneva Motor Show 1955

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Daimler SP 250 (1963) - in its old guise - still with plastic bodywork

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Daimler SP 250 (1959) - originally the English sports car was called "Dart", but Chrysler had already used this name

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Daimler SP 250 (1964) - shown at the 1964 Geneva Motor Show, still with plastic bodywork

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Daimler Double Six (1986) - can now also be ordered with catalytic converter at an additional cost of 3250 francs - Geneva Motor Show 1986

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Daimler Double Six (1973) - expensive version of the Series 1

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Summary

There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of them is the British Daimler. After the end of the war in 1964, Daimler built 6- and 8-cylinder cars again for the first time after tanks and aircraft parts. However, Daimler came into the possession of Jaguar as early as 1960 and the last genuine Daimler was built in 1992. Until 2009, there was still a luxury Jaguar called Daimler, until the brand disappeared completely.

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The inventor Frederick R. Simms from Warwickshire and Gottlieb Daimler met for the first time at the technical fair in Bremen. In 1890, Simms acquired all Daimler engine patents for the United Kingdom and its colonies. His Daimler Motor Syndicate Ltd., founded in 1893, initially motorized boats. In 1895, the first Daimler motor car arrived in England, and under Harry J. Lawson, the patents were taken over by the British Motor Syndicate Ltd. The company's directors then contacted Panhard, Peugeot, De Dion-Bouton and Daimler about automobile production. In 1896, a cotton mill in Coventry was converted into a car factory for Daimler Motor Co Ltd. Daimler cars were built there from 1897, with two to six-cylinder models, trucks and buses. In 1908, Daimler secured exclusive rights to the pusher engine developed by the American Charles Knight. Further developed by Dr. Frederick W. Lanchester, six-cylinder engines with a displacement of 5 and 7.4 liters were available from 1919 and even 9.4 liters from 1924. Chief designer Laurence H. Pomeroy created the super-luxury Double-Six model with V12 slide valve engine in 1926, the 1.8-L-Six with valves in 1933 and the analogous eight-cylinder in-line engine in 1935.

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