When my valet interrupted my hot body with spider milk, he submerged me to let me know that the parent company of Mercedes-Benz will cease to be DaimlerI was so enraged that I kept his stupid face under the spider’s milk until he peed. I regretted it almost immediately, because at the moment he only owns a pair of pants and he wore them. Also, I realized that this might be the perfect opportunity to clear up some of the confusion about the Daimler name that some of you might have been afraid to ask. So we do.
What happens to cars called Daimler is that I know that many avid car enthusiasts have been aware that Mercedes-Benz did it for a long time. really Daimler-Benzes, and they’ve probably also seen pictures of some cars with Daimler badges that look suspicious of Jaguars.
I suspect a lot of younger enthusiasts who aren’t specifically dedicated to old-fashioned vintage things may have noticed in passing and wondered about a connection, but then it became awkward to ask, like when you forget someone’s name. at a party, but I’ve been talking to them for almost 20 minutes and now I find it weird to ask again.
Don’t worry, though: Uncle Torchy has turned his back on you.
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The root of all the Daimlers out there is our old friend, Gottlieb Daimler, the famous first automotive pioneer who worked with the father of the four-stroke engine Nicolaus Otto since the 1870s and who finally developed its own high-speed gasoline capable of accelerating engines.
Daimler installed its engines in two-wheeled cycles and then a true four-wheeled vehicle in 1886. Daimler did not partner with Benz until 1926, and during the decades leading up to this famous partnership, Daimler was starting engines and awesome to people everywhere. Europe, which led to the licensing of Daimler engine designs everywhere, even in America, where Daimler Manufacturing Company launched “Daimlers” from 1898 to 1907, including a so-called “American Mercedes”.
In Europe, Daimler licensees included Peugeot and Panhard et Lavassor in France, Austro-Daimler in Austria (where Ferdinand Porsche started) and the Daimler I suspect causes the most confusion, the British.
It is also worth noting this part of the reason why Daimler-Benz began marketing its cars under the name a concrete model named for a Jewish girl, Mercedes, it was because there were so many Daimler licenses that people were confused.
The British Daimlers start with an engineer named Frederick Simms, who found Daimler engines in some small wagons he saw in Germany in 1889 and in 1891 had the British rights to Daimler’s patents and in 1895 founded the Daimler Motor Company Limited. build cars.
There were a lot of complicated comings and goings with partners, and in 1896 the company was re-formed and began building cars in 1897, starting with some with Panhard engines and then moving on to Daimler-powered cars.
It should also be noted that in 1899 Simms developed the Motor Scout, considered the first gasoline-powered vehicle ever built. Aside from the iron panel behind the Maxim machine gun, it looks like most of the armor in this thing is layers of tweed and leather, which doesn’t inspire much confidence.
Simms later made one real armored car, The Motor War Car, of which I have written before.
Daimler soon became a respected British vehicle manufacturer, arguably the oldest British vehicle manufacturer to manufacture vehicles in quantity. In 1902 they were granted a royal order to supply cars to the British Crown and Queen Elizabeth still had one. Daimler Double-Six from 1984 to 2019.
Now, even if you know Jack Squatingshire about Daimlers, I bet you notice a couple of things about the queen up there: specifically, it looks like a Jaguar from the same era but has a fun fluted grille.
This is because Jaguar bought Daimler in 1960, and soon after Daimlers relied on Jags, usually only more specialized Jaguars. Although the style changes were quite minimal, an ever-present change was the fluted grille, which was a trademark of Daimler from the earliest days, when it came to a visual stylization of very early radiator tanks, which were fins to further dissipate heat. effectively:
In the United States, we never got Daimler-Jaguars, but sometimes we got the fluted grilles of Jaguars that had the high-end Vanden Plas finish level.
So I hope this helps you the next time you see a car called Daimler, but you’re sure it looks like a Jaguar, but you’re not sure what it has to do with the company that built Mercedes-Benz.
This has been a very quick overview, but I absolutely suggest delving into the history of these companies, ideally introducing your local library and starting a new life there, reading about old German and British vehicle manufacturers until the police drag you down, shouting.