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Re: Daimler

To: "Mark N. Pacey" <M.N.Pacey@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Daimler
From: Greg Meboe <meboe@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:49:49 -31802 (PST)
On Tue, 20 Dec 1994, Mark N. Pacey wrote:

> Daimler are the grand-daddy of them all.  Set up by Frederick Sims(?) 
> in 1896 or there abouts in Coventry, England.  Sims had the British 

> Mark

 Mark,
        A fine treatise on the Daimler mark.  When I toured the Brown's 
Lane assembly plant in Fall of '88, I remember seeing these big, black 
lumbering limousine beasts being assembled in a building just adjacent to 
the main Jaguar line.  Quite a unique looking car.

                Greg
                            Greg Meboe     meboe@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
                            Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
                            Washington State University,  Pullman, Wa.
                            '85 XJ-12 H.E. (daily)  '67 Spit-6 '74 TR-6





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