Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of her treasures Queen Mary got as gifts from royal relatives all over Europe, but most of them were prizes won in a long lifetime of stalking antique stores. Her Majesty's great green Daimler was a familiar sight parked in front of London shops. When she arrived, sometimes on less than an hour's notice, the dealer closed his doors, let the old lady roam through all crannies. Some dealers kept a special drawer for her, in which they put aside items of the kind she favored. Others, knowing her penchant for exploring, prepared their shops...
...mark for the first time since the war. In Stuttgart, five industrialists formed a new "Aero Union" that would leap into production as soon as the Allies remove controls from German aircraft industry-some time next year. The names of their firms: Messerschmitt, Dornier, Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and Daimler-Benz...
Queen Elizabeth, fresh as the morning dew, drove in her Daimler through the dingy streets of London's East End and was cheered by crowds that were ten-deep. Next day, with blowing of trumpets and banging of brasses, she showed herself and was cheered in middle-class Chelsea and Kensington. She conferred knighthoods on Colonel John Hunt, organizer of the British expedition that conquered Everest, and on New Zealander Edmond Hillary, who made it to the top. At week's end, the Queen watched England's greatest jockey, Gordon Richards, newly knighted, win his first Derby...
Fine Tolerances. As soon as Daimler-Benz was making money again, it went out to recapture its old racing honors. In 1952, it sent the powerful, speedy 300 SL to Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes...
...Daimler-Benz, the craftsmen take just as great pains with the cars. One out of every 15 production workers is a tester, who makes sure each car meets exacting requirements. Engine parts are machined to fine tolerances, each engine is tested on a block for from four to twelve hours. Daimler-Benz makes eight models of Mercedes, including two diesel-powered ones, which range from the relatively inexpensive four-cylinder 170 V ($1,890 and about 60 h.p.) to the six-cylinder 300 S (about 190 h.p.). With their old-fashioned bodies, they resemble 1936, and older, U.S. cars. Their...