Geoff,
Living on the south coast, I'm not sure I can agree with you, we saw the Pathe news where the Daimler was prominent in the early days, especially George VI and the royal tours in the 50's, regarding the programme Elizabeth at 90 one possibly would not see the cars especially if they were travelling in them and they were family taken. Most film tends to be official events and the cars tended to be the the cars in the cavalcade, many early newsreel tended to have the state roller followed by the last discarded and so on, in the 50's the Daimlers started off as the next in line then regressed to further down the line as time moved on until they went to the museum, from Norfolk Lads post it seems they are not forgotten and quite a few still exist, just we live in the wrong part of the country. Perhaps it would be nice to have them transported to the Transport Museum in Glasgow for an exhibition, rather than us having to find them in the south.
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Royal Toy Car
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Well done Norfolk Lad, that's what I remember.
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Just a brief update on the 'Daimler' toy car which is actually a badge engineered Citroen as found at Sandringham Museum last week!
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Sadly i had seen the bit about the Citroen car being altered to look like a Daimler did not have the heart to tell, all those lost years with the idea it was but then it was altered as Charles had wanted a Daimler.
Bit of they all look the same then as now hard to tell one make from the other in present production cars.
Wolferton station seems to cover the cars of the Royal Daimlers.
Bit of they all look the same then as now hard to tell one make from the other in present production cars.
Wolferton station seems to cover the cars of the Royal Daimlers.