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...DAIMLER LIMOUSINE marks the introduction to U.S. distribution of one of the illustrious names in the annals of luxury automobiles. A Daimler was the first motorcar owned by a King of England (Edward VII), and was known for decades as "the car of royalty." Designed primarily to be chauffeur-driven, it has an electrically controlled glass partition between front and rear seats, and the doors open to a full 90° angle, revealing a concealed step for easy entrance and exit. A 4½-liter V-8 engine provides a top speed of 114 m.p.h. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Wheels of Fortune | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...figures California has long since overtaken New York to become the most populous state in the Union. Governor Pat Brown picked last week to celebrate the great occasion. The Chamber of Commerce Managers Association brightly suggested that each of the state's 9,000,000 motorcar owners honk their horns in unison on Dec. 28. But, as it happened. H-day came at minus7 in perhaps the most spectacular, horn-honking, steel-crunching traffic pileup in vehicular history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Biggest Crash | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...breaks it all up, and war comes to the Jenkinses appropriately enough with the arrival of a general in a motorcar. A visiting uncle is heard to mutter: "Never driven one in my life. Not too keen on 'em. Always involved in accidents. Some royalty in a motorcar have been involved in a nasty affair today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comic Opera (Act VI) | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Liberals do not favor nationalization of industry). They are unencumbered by the Labor Party's internal feuds and by the proletarian stigma that keeps many middle-class voters from going Labor. Sniffed Macmillan: "The Liberal Party is performing the valuable function of the exhaust pipe in the motorcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Daggers for Mac | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Great Leap Forward techniques, who once was denounced by Gomulka himself for his mistakes as chief economic planner from 1954 to 1956. Another deputy premiership went to Julian Tokarski, the pre-Gomulka Minister of Motorcar Industry whose clumsiness in rebuffing worker demands led to the Poznan riots of June 1956. A third advocate of harsh centralized controls, Moscow-oriented Tadeusz Gede, was elevated to a prominent post in the State Economic Planning Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Bad Old Ways | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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