page_title: Bernard Docker
section_title: Docker Daimlers
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Docker / Docker Daimlers
caption_attribution_description: Photographed at the Louwman museum / Louwman Collection, The Netherlands. Daimler DK400 2-dr fixed-head coupé by Hooper &amp; Co for Lady Docker wife of the company's chairman for display at the Earls Court Motor Show October 1955 Painted ivory with all external and internal brightwork gold-plated. Ivory leather trim. Windscreen and roof panel of heat reflecting glass. Built-in cocktail cabinet, vanity box and picnic basket. An ivory-handled folding umbrella. Lady Docker's initials inscribed in gold letters on the door. Mascot - a golden zebra. Real zebra-skin upholstery "because mink is too hot to sit on".
context_page_description: Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker was an English industrialist. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, he was the only child of Frank Dudley Docker, an English businessman and financier.
context_section_description: Sir Bernard Docker commissioned a series of Daimlers that were built to Lady Docker's specifications for the show circuit.
  1951 – The Gold Car (a.k.a. Golden Daimler)
  The Gold Car was a touring limousine on the Thirty-Six Straight-Eight chassis.  The car was covered with 7,000 tiny gold stars, and all plating that would normally have been chrome was gold. This car was taken to Paris, the United States and Australia.
  1952 – Blue Clover
  Also on the Thirty-Six Straight-Eight chassis, Blue Clover was a two-door sportsman's coupé.
  1953 – Silver Flash
  The Silver Flash was an aluminium-bodied coupé based on the 3-litre Regency chassis. Its accessories included solid silver hairbrushes and red fitted luggage made from crocodile skin.
  1954 – Star Dust
  based on the DF400 chassis 
  1955 – Golden Zebra
  The Golden Zebra was a two-door coupé based on the DK400 chassis. Like the Gold Car, the Golden Zebra had all its metal trim pieces plated in gold instead of chrome, and it had an ivory dashboard and zebra-skin upholstery.
caption: Golden Zebra, for the 1955 Paris Show
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