Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sword Arm. The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill himself rolled up in his black Daimler, escorted by motorcycle cops and wreathed in cherubic smiles. Then came the bride, blue-eyed, reddish-blonde and glowing like an English hedge rose in her swirling pink dress (which she had designed herself) and pert, close-fitting...
...R.A.F. guard of honor snapped to attention as a tall, erect European stepped out of his plane at London's Northolt Airport. A Daimler with a British crown on its windshield whisked him off to the finest suite (101-102) at Claridge's. Next day, Winston Churchill welcomed him at lunch at 10 Downing Street; at week's end he drove to Buckingham Palace to spend a chatty half hour with King George VI. To make the honored guest feel at home in chilly London, the British government rounded up 200 of his fellow countrymen to take...
...Rolls-Royce, although among the royalty of British cars, holds no Warrant. Daimler does...
...bustling week for Britain's royal family, Princess Margaret paid her first official visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first...
...trading in their 1948 Daimler, a present from the R.A.F., Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were able to buy a Rolls Royce, the first of a new line called the Phantom IV. Cost: about...