I think this car is of U.S. origin.
Anyone know the brand and it model?
Olivier
I don't know, Olivier, but it looks more English than American to me, somehow.
Je ne sais pas, Olivier, mais elle me parait plus Anglaise qu'Americaine, en quelque maniere.
Hoping not to offend here; as received just this morning:
Aircraft Identification:
If it's ugly, it's British.
If it's weird, it's French.
If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian.
The pics was taken in France after WW1, the car can also come from England.
Looks like a Daimler from here.
Manuel in Oz
Manuel may well be right. I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Daimler_Type_45,_1920.jpg
Daimlers had a distinctive fluted grille on top of the radiator, as shown in the photo Dick has posted. I'm not so sure the car in question has a fluted grille.
I found this photo of Daimler in 1914 ......
Thank you for your help.
olivier
The pics are very blurred with much detail lost. Can't even read the rego no. on the 2nd car. But the similarities are evident eg radiator, front axle etc etc
Manuel in Oz
Olivier
I know very little about the early years of Daimler but, by 1914, the trademark fluted grille was a recognisable feature.
Here are two more pictures of 1914 Daimlers - one from the period (black and white) and a more recent one of a museum car.
The Daimler flutes front and rear have been carried forward into the Daimler models of Jaguar, which are labeled Vanden Plas in the US, due to some confusion with Daimler-Benz.
Ralph - is that cat looking for a Jaguar?
Here's a pic of the car I learned to drive in... well, I taught myself in it really, as my Dad wouldn't teach me! But that's another story. Had a soft spot for Daimlers ever since.
Aren't the Queen's preferred automobiles Daimlers?
They were indeed Dick - probably up to the mid-late sixties (possibly later), Daimler was the preferred royal marque, and from very early days.
Is that a 12 or a 14 John??
The company had quite an interesting history in the 1950s. They had special cars made for the director's wife, called the Docker Daimlers.
Just when the UK was going thru its worst period of austerity.
Manuel in Oz
Manuel - I found this item on Docker on the 'net. Sounds like Lady Docker was quite a madam! See http://www.joesherlock.com/Docker.html
Hmmm! I always assumed Docker was a body builder - shows how wrong we can be. I see she became a director of Hoopers - they were a bodybuilder, and built fine bodies for Daimler, RR, etc. There were also other body builders (or coach makers, depending upon what side of the tracks you're from!) such as Barkers and Vanden Plas.
Dick - according to the Docker article, Daimler fell out of favour with the royal family in the mid-fifties, and that was the catalyst for collapse (and eventual sale to Jaguar). However I know royalty also had the DS Limousines (built from late sixties right through the 80's, if not later).
Manuel - it is a DB18 Consort (I understand that name comes from the new Queen Elizabeth's husband's title). It had a 2.5 litre 6-cylinder motor, and was a tad under powered, but no-one seemed to mind! It had a pre-select gearbox (often referred to as semi-automatic - select a gear on the column- mounted console then, when you want that gear, engage it by stamping the gear-change pedal, located where the clutch would be on the floor in a normal manual car). It had a fluid drive so it was impossible to stall it. It was a four-speed transmission - quite unusual in those days.
My father was the second owner of the car - the first was an Auckland lawyer called Diamond! With around 90,000 miles only on the clock, he sold it while I was living overseas (he knew I wanted it and thought he was doing me a favour by selling it). When I got home my brother and I tracked it down - the new owner had lost interest in it and pushed it sideways into a hedge and the cats were living in it. We were both very disappointed to see it in that sate - it was beyond repair.
It is Dime ler Benz in Germany
and Dame ler in England.
Once I was registering an old Mercedes in Germany and I accidently called it a Dame ler Benz, the lady at the registration window almost had a fit as she shouted, "dime ler benz" in my face. I knew better but now I look at the word before I say it.
You could have capped it off, Aaron, if you were left handed. Germany did not permit lefties, and thought wifey and I were mental defects, and rudely laughed at us. They were even more boggled that we were college graduates.
I did not know about the lefty thing but I know German baby girls will soon go blind if they don't get their ears pierced when they are young.
We had a girl born in Germany and since my wife was a German native our kid had to suffer for it.
I am right handed but with a name like Aaron eleven years after the war I had to stay on my toes when I was out and about. I heard them mumble that I must be a Jew several times.
In one particular case I was damn glad I could understand German. I got to h__ out of there in a hurry.