Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
Nobody in Britain could throw a better binge than Lady Docker, whose democratic ways and goldplated, zebra-lined Daimler motorcars have long been the solid staples of London's gossip columns. Unfortunately for London partygoers, however, just as Norah's plans were crystallizing last week, the Daimler people fired her husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames...
...audience of sheepish miners aboard the Dockers' 878-ton yacht Shemara. Although both are millionaires, the Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position of Sir Bernard, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., which produces everything from air rifles to $40,000 Daimler limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers-one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing $42,000. Owned by Daimler, they were built to Lady Docker's specifications and for her use. Said Lady Docker: "We bring glamour and happiness into drab lives...
...DAIMLER-BENZ, one of Germany's biggest automakers with exports to 117 nations (1954 sales: $240 million), will soon start a separate U.S. subsidiary to help supply its expanding U.S. and Canadian markets. The company will set up its own multimillion-dollar factory somewhere in the Eastern U.S., start making heavy diesel trucks, tractors and industrial engines late this year. Mercedes-Benz cars will still be made in Germany...
...Optional, at extra cost, in 1955 Lincolns and Mercurys, old hat in the Rolls-Royce (since 1978) and such other class cars as Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, prewar Packard...