page_title: Daimler Straight-Eight engines
section_title: Thirty-Six DE 36
hierarchical_section_title: Daimler Straight-Eight engines / Thirty-Six DE 36
caption_attribution_description: English: Daimler DE36 Landaulette 1947 (DVLA) first registered 14 April 1960, 5460cc Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012
context_page_description: Daimler Straight-Eight engines were eight-cylinder in-line petrol engines made by the Daimler Company to power the largest and most expensive cars in their range. The Straight-Eight engines replaced Daimler's earlier Double-Six V12 engines. Unlike the Double-Six engines, which used sleeve valves based on the Knight patents, the Straight-Eights used conventional poppet valves in the overhead valve configuration.
  Three series of Straight-Eight engines were built between 1934 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939; another series, the DE36, was built after the war from 1946 to 1953.
context_section_description: The DE 36 was the last Daimler Straight-Eight. Developed from the Thirty-Two V 4½, the DE 36's bore and stroke were, at 85.1 mm × 120.0 mm (3.35 in × 4.72 in), identical to those of the six-cylinder 27 hp (RAC) engine being used in the DE 27 limousine and DC 27 ambulance.
caption: 5½-litre Thirty-Six 1947 example
  State landaulette
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