Daimler Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

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00:03:38 1 Origin
00:03:47 1.1 Simms and the Daimler engine
00:05:44 1.2 Simms plans to make cars
00:08:00 1.3 Simms sells out to Lawson
00:10:30 2 Independent (1896-1910)
00:10:44 2.1 From starting to stability
00:17:32 2.2 Royal patronage
00:21:14 2.3 Fluted radiator
00:21:57 2.4 Sleeve-valve engines
00:24:45 2.5 First fatal motor accident in the United Kingdom
00:25:32 3 Under BSA (1910-1960)
00:25:46 3.1 Acquisition by BSA
00:27:24 3.2 Royal transport
00:28:03 3.3 Public transport
00:28:52 3.4 World War I work
00:33:02 3.5 Civil aviation
00:34:15 3.6 Commercial vehicles
00:34:47 3.7 Lanchester acquisition and badging
00:36:31 3.8 Review of BSA management before World War II
00:40:17 3.9 Management shift
00:42:24 3.10 Daimler's semi-automatic transmissions
00:45:18 3.11 World War II work
00:48:32 3.12 Postwar decline
00:53:06 3.12.1 Consorts discounted
00:55:15 3.12.2 Lady Docker's Daimlers
00:58:20 3.13 Turner's engines
01:00:21 4 Buses 1911–1973
01:07:31 5 Owned by Jaguar Cars (1960-1966)
01:10:07 5.1 Jaguar-based Daimlers
01:12:51 6 Owned by BMH (1966-1968)
01:13:24 6.1 Lyons' reasons and reactions
01:14:15 6.2 End of Daimler brand in the United States
01:14:45 7 Owned by British Leyland (1968-1984)
01:15:00 7.1 Daimler DS420 Limousine
01:17:00 7.2 Daimler Sovereign, Daimler Double-Six
01:17:43 7.3 Chairmen
01:18:20 7.4 Fluted grilles in Continental Europe and the US
01:19:16 8 Owned by Jaguar Cars (1984-1989)
01:20:52 9 Owned by Ford (1989-2007)
01:22:04 9.1 Century
01:23:19 9.2 Daimler Super V8
01:24:03 9.3 Daimler Super Eight
01:24:55 10 Owned by Tata (2007-present)
01:26:10 11 Current status
01:27:24 12 See also



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The Daimler Company Limited, until 1910, the Daimler Motor Company Limited, was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H. J. Lawson in 1896, which set up its manufacturing base in Coventry. The company bought the right to the use of the Daimler name simultaneously from Gottlieb Daimler and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft of Cannstatt, Germany. After early financial difficulty and a reorganisation of the company in 1904, the Daimler Motor Company was purchased by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) in 1910, which also made cars under its own name before World War II. In 1933, BSA bought the Lanchester Motor Company and made it a subsidiary of Daimler.
Daimler was awarded a Royal Warrant to provide cars to the British Monarch in 1902; it lost this privilege in the 1950s after being supplanted by Rolls-Royce. Daimler occasionally used alternative technology: the Knight engine which it further developed in the early twentieth century and used from 1909 to 1935, worm gear final drive fitted from 1909 until after the Second World War, and their patented fluid flywheel used in conjunction with a Wilson preselector gearbox from 1930 to the mid-1950s.
In the 1950s, Daimler tried to widen its appeal with a line of smaller cars at one end and opulent show cars at the other, stopped making Lanchesters, had a highly publicised removal of their chairman from the board, and developed and sold a sports car and a high-performance luxury saloon and limousine.
In 1960, BSA sold Daimler to Jaguar Cars, which continued Daimler's line and added a Daimler variant of its Mark II sports saloon. Jaguar was then merged into the British Motor Corporation in 1966 and British Leyland in 1968.  Under these companies, Daimler became an upscale trim level for Jaguar cars except for the 1968-1992 Daimler DS420 limousine, which had no Jaguar equivalent despite being fully Jaguar-based. When Jaguar Cars was split off from British Leyland in 1984 it retained the Daimler company and brand.
In 1990 Ford Motor Company bought Jaguar Cars and under Ford it stopped  ...