Word: daimler
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...will be first used next month when the King goes to Newcastle for the launching of the new 35,000-ton battleship King George V. Safety feature of the new Daimler: the glass is bulletproof...
Parent of fluid drive is the hydraulic turbine principle, almost as old as the automobile itself, but until recently not made efficient. Already in use in the British Daimler's "fluid flywheel," it is also the basis for hydraulic transmissions being installed this year by General Motors on 150 busses. The General Motors adaptation replaces not only the clutch, but all transmission gears except reverse, relieving the bus driver of the job of clutching and shifting gears in ordinary stop-and-go operation, making less harried the task of driving, opening and closing doors and collecting fares...
Coventry, now the home of Daimler Motors, still celebrates with an occasional Lady Godiva ride. A bronze memorial tablet has been set up to the city's benefactor, and before Coventry's King's Head Hotel stands a colored, wooden statue of a bearded, blinded Peeping...
...seen at the German Chancellery, into which flowed truckloads of gifts from ecstatic admirers. Der Führer received tons of flowers, hundreds of cakes, a set of phonograph records of Anschluss speeches, a set of foreign translations of Mein Kampf, a lion cub, the 500,000th Daimler-Benz car, a portrait of the late General Erich Ludendorff and numerous cradles, baby carriages, and babies' clothes "from the provinces"-i. e., from provincial families still unaware that the man who so often appeals to German mothers for more and better children is a bachelor...
...stateliness of Wagnerian opera. For Her Majesty and all she stood for it might be Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods"), but she was far from "broken and weeping" as some dispatches reported. Just as they were being printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...