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Docker type Daimler
Docker type Daimler
Am just wondering if anyone can identify this Daimler.
SimonP
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Re: Docker type Daimler
Looks to be a Hooper Dauphin 2 Door? Geoff should be able to tell you
Is like the third image down on this website
http://www.daimler-v8.co.uk/pictorial%20history.htm
Is like the third image down on this website
http://www.daimler-v8.co.uk/pictorial%20history.htm
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Re: Docker type Daimler
Certainly looks like it. I thought the covered headlights was only a feature on the Docker Daimlers.
Seen at Aintree Hall, Cambridge I believe but I can't find any further information.
SimonP
Seen at Aintree Hall, Cambridge I believe but I can't find any further information.
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If you get any further details it would be helpful as I could go and look as I cannot find an Aintree Hall locally.
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Re: Docker type Daimler
Simon and Darren
Fascinating, this one certainly needs to be followed up if possible. Perhaps one for you Darren? It's not a Dauphin because only the one original Lanchester Dauphin has perspex headlamp covers, but it does appear to be a two door model. The grille is of the early 1950s DB18 vintage, I think, certainly pre-DJ, and that together with the front wing vent appearance appears to make it most likely to be either THE Lady Docker DB18 special sports 2+2 fixed head coupe (chassis no 53790 on p144/145 of The Daimler Tradition), the FH version of the Hooper SS DHC (of which 6 were made), or an identical car. I don't know how many of these Daimler & Hooper made, probably more than one because there is a recent photo of another in good condition taken somewhere in the USA.
A year or three ago someone did say that he'd heard of one of these somewhere in East Anglia, unfortunately I don't remember who, where or when; it wasn't someone I knew in the DLOC. It appears that he was correct!
Where did the photo come from? I've not heard of an Aintree Hall either.
Anxious to hear more.
Cheers
Geoff
Fascinating, this one certainly needs to be followed up if possible. Perhaps one for you Darren? It's not a Dauphin because only the one original Lanchester Dauphin has perspex headlamp covers, but it does appear to be a two door model. The grille is of the early 1950s DB18 vintage, I think, certainly pre-DJ, and that together with the front wing vent appearance appears to make it most likely to be either THE Lady Docker DB18 special sports 2+2 fixed head coupe (chassis no 53790 on p144/145 of The Daimler Tradition), the FH version of the Hooper SS DHC (of which 6 were made), or an identical car. I don't know how many of these Daimler & Hooper made, probably more than one because there is a recent photo of another in good condition taken somewhere in the USA.
A year or three ago someone did say that he'd heard of one of these somewhere in East Anglia, unfortunately I don't remember who, where or when; it wasn't someone I knew in the DLOC. It appears that he was correct!
Where did the photo come from? I've not heard of an Aintree Hall either.
Anxious to hear more.
Cheers
Geoff
Re: Docker type Daimler
I was told about this car in 2010, by Ben Hogan from whom I bought my NDHC. Ben said the owner knows what it is and is not interested in selling.
Dennis
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Re: Docker type Daimler
Dennis
How unfortunate that the owner will neither sell the car nor restore it to useable condition, or put another way, preserve a significant piece of history for the future.
Indeed the owner is actively preventing such preservation.
It should be illegal so to do.
Regards
Geoff
How unfortunate that the owner will neither sell the car nor restore it to useable condition, or put another way, preserve a significant piece of history for the future.
Indeed the owner is actively preventing such preservation.
It should be illegal so to do.
Regards
Geoff
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Have located the car and its whereabouts will see if the owner can be persuaded otherwise
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Re: Docker type Daimler
How can you be sure the owner doesn't intend to restore or use the car? I have a very sorry looking Empress which I have had for many years. It is only now that I am able to start working on it.
Who says that the owner hasn't preserved the car in the first place? It could have been scrapped if it wasn't for their intervention for all we know.
Who says that the owner hasn't preserved the car in the first place? It could have been scrapped if it wasn't for their intervention for all we know.
Re: Docker type Daimler
I spoke to Ben last night he has known the owner, John Debruny, who has had the car for about 30 years. It is 53790 and was a Docker car when new.