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Decorously joining in on the national party given this week by the U. S. motor industry (see p. 93), foreign makers last week gave prosperous U. S. citizens an opportunity to recapture the thrill they had in childhood when Mother brought home from London a Daimler exactly like Queen Alexandra's or Father returned from Berlin with a bellowing Blitzen-Benz...
...ruling Indian Prince, merely wealthy Sir Hukunchand Sarupchand purchased in 1919 a 45 h.p. British Daimler car with a gold-plated custom body which still suits him exactly: Last week, having been overhauled by the Daimler company which boasted that they had found it unnecessary to take down the sleeve-valve engine, Sir Sarupchand's 17-year-old car emerged from a British plating works which has been doing over its gold surface. On removing the upholstery to renovate the stuffing, enough dead Indian red ants were discovered to make a heaping shovelful. Finally the car was packed...
...voiced and a considerate host, but the pale blue of his eyes is that of ice. When he was Secretary of State for India he used to be driven daily to St. James's Palace in a minute Baby Austin, while the rajas and tnaharajas arrived in mammoth Daimler limousines in imitation of the King - but Sam Hoare soon showed who was master. At his first encounter with Mahatma Gandhi, then virtually a saint with tremendous kudos which had carried him straight from jail to Bucking ham Palace, Sir Samuel declared bluntly that he would give India just...
Many a new feature gives the Hindenburg the right to the title of world's No. i dirigible. Prime aeronautical innovations are the first Diesel engines ever installed in an airship. Huge Daimler Benz V-8's made of a secret, lightweight alloy, they occupy four gondolas placed far back on the hull, leave a feathery wake of smoke as they shove the ship ahead at a maximum of 85 m.p.h. Only other projection through the smooth, silvery fabric of the Hindenburg's bag is the small control cabin near...
Sensational in automotive British circles this week was news that, for the first time, the King of England had ordered a car other than the Daimler invariably used by King Edward VII and King George V. The United Kingdom's motor industry is acutely sensitive to Canadian competition, has not hesitated to sneer in paid advertisements at "the American cars which are so conveniently brought in from Canada" under Empire tariff agreements. At great advertising expense a feeling has been nurtured in the United Kingdom that to buy a Canadian car from beyond the seas is not really...