Daimler story. Who owns this now??

[John Hitchins]

Many years back (30 at least) the Daimler in the picture came through my home village of West Hagbourne in Oxfordshire. It had taken a corner to fast and the battery moved in the case causing smoke to come from under the floor boards.
The battery had shorted againt metal plates.
The chauffeur was on the way to pick up a retiring gentleman.
Having owned a DB18 back in 1967 I was aware of the problem. I roped up the battery and all was well. The promised bottle of whiskey never turned up!
Where is this car now?

[marchesmark]

I don't know whether the owner mentioned here still has it, as this video is quite old, but interesting nevertheless!



Mark

[John Hitchins]

Cheers Mark, interesting, it must be well known in Daimler circles.

[simonp]

Here is a link to a previous topic on the dark side.

http://www.dlcentre.com/forum/pop_print ... C_ID=12383


Peter Grant indicates that this car is in the Grampian Museum.

SimonP

[John Hitchins]

Thanks very much, I hope to see it again one day.

[watkindj]

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Its a resident at the Grampian Transport Museum

[John Hitchins]

I am not so sure its the same car, the door handles meet in the middle on the museum one but in my picture they are front and back like a DB18. Unless its my eyes, a problem these days.

[watkindj]

Me either now you mention it but its the car wearing same registration as in the video on the posting further back in this thread

indeed watching the video the car is different I wonder if they have two ??

[theoldman]

I think this is one for Brian Smith. He is quite an expert on Royal Daimlers.

[watkindj]

off to the Library