Word: daimler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio...
...made-in-Germany cars produced last year were turned out by General Motors' subsidiary Opel, while famed Mercedes- Daimler-Benz accounted for only...
Among royal warrant holders are John Lusty (turtle soup), Ashton & Mitchell, Ltd. (theatre tickets), Mary A. Bennett (stable brooms), R. G. Lawrie, Ltd. (bagpipes) and Merryweather & Sons, Ltd. (fire engines). Cars His Majesty buys from The Daimler Co., Ltd., rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence...
...great Berlin office of Mercédés-Daimler-Bentz there was high glee last week as Nazi automotive engineers chuckled over observations made in Manhattan by President William B. Stout of the American Society of Automotive Engineers. "The best way to make the present day car ride easy," declared President Stout, "is to put a lot of weight in the back end. Four hundred pounds of cement in the back seat helps a lot, but if we can put the engine back there and save the weight of the cement we get a better ride, better traction...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...