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Prices of popular British cars average ?10 ($45) higher at the Show this year than last, with roomier bodies and self-changing gears as the excuse for upping. Still supreme was the stately Daimler, picked as the King-Emperor's personal equipage by Edward VII and used exclusively by George V. Ready for the road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply...
...royal gardens. At the hospital's gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet...
Presumably friends support the honest Scot. A "lifelong friend" (Sir Alexander Grant) gave him during his first Prime Ministry a $13,122 Daimler limousine (similar to the King's) plus 30,000 shares of McVitie & Price (biscuits) stock then worth $150,000, "the income to pay for upkeep of the car" (TIME, Sept. 22,1924). Scot MacDonald no longer has Daimler or its endowment, now uses a Vauxhall...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...
...Benott marched round to the front of the Palace, made ready to blaze away once more. Hundreds of eyes peered through the iron railing, focused on the small door at the right of the Palace, on the long red plush carpet leading to the dark maroon (almost black) Royal Daimler. Briskly, in an impeccable grey topper, King George walked the carpet, squiring Queen Mary amid lusty cheers. He was going to cele- brate in 100% English fashion by attending the races?for the first time since he went to Goodwood in July 1928. Very, very slowly, at less than...