Word: daimler
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...demand for a limited number of big, extra powerful and luxurious motor cars. To meet this demand I am bringing back to the Stearns Motor Co. in which I have a large interest, a proposition which will give it the exclusive sale in the U. S. of a new Daimler-Knight sleeve-valve motor of 180 horsepower, the most powerful stock car ever built...
...Daimler of England was the first motor car to use the sleeve-valve method of regulating gasoline motor intake and exhaust, the principles of which Charles Y. Knight had worked...
...corridors of the House buzzed humorously with the news that ex-Premier MacDonald had de-decided to return his Daimler automobile to its donor, together with nearly ?30,000 worth of biscuit shares "lent" to him for its upkeep. It was this car which caused such a furore in the country last fall (TIME, Sept...
Premier James Ramsay MacDonald was driven in his handsome Daimler into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace; three-quarters of an hour later he emerged. King George had accepted the Cabinet's resignation...
...Ford's determination to build and operate in England is undoubtedly that he will have there no competitors in manu- factoring cheap cars. The cheapest British car costs $575; British makers are so unaccustomed to standardization of a few models only, that they manufacture over 300 models. Daimler alone has 5f models...