Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glory be!" cried a delighted char, "she's prettier than the Duchess of York!" and this impression seemed to be general. Stepping into a big Daimler, George and Marina held hands on the short drive to St. James's Palace, waved their free hands at a surging populace which pelted flowers and roared "Welcome our Princess!" until excited Marina was seen to brush tears of joy from her eyes...
Prices of popular British cars average ?10 ($45) higher at the Show this year than last, with roomier bodies and self-changing gears as the excuse for upping. Still supreme was the stately Daimler, picked as the King-Emperor's personal equipage by Edward VII and used exclusively by George V. Ready for the road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply...
...royal gardens. At the hospital's gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet...
Presumably friends support the honest Scot. A "lifelong friend" (Sir Alexander Grant) gave him during his first Prime Ministry a $13,122 Daimler limousine (similar to the King's) plus 30,000 shares of McVitie & Price (biscuits) stock then worth $150,000, "the income to pay for upkeep of the car" (TIME, Sept. 22,1924). Scot MacDonald no longer has Daimler or its endowment, now uses a Vauxhall...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...