The Daimler Regency series was a luxury car made in Coventry by The Daimler Company Limited between 1951 and 1958. Only an estimated 49 examples of the 3-litre Regency chassis were made because demand for new cars collapsed just weeks after its introduction. Almost three years later in October 1954, a lengthened more powerful Regency Mark II (DF304) was announced but, in turn, after a production run of 345 cars, it was replaced by the very much faster, up-rated One-O-Four (DF310), announced in October 1955.
Regency Mark II 3½-litre 1955 DF304 with body by Barker
Regency Empress by Hooper 1953
Regency Mk II 3½-litre
One-O-Four 3½-litre
The Daimler Company Limited, before 1910 known as the Daimler Motor Company Limited, was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H. J. Lawson in 1896, which set up its manufacturing base in Coventry. The company bought the right to the use of the Daimler name simultaneously from Gottlieb Daimler and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft of Cannstatt, Germany. After early financial difficulty and a reorganisation of the company in 1904, the Daimler Motor Company was purchased by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) in 1910, which also made cars under its own name before the Second World War. In 1933, BSA bought the Lanchester Motor Company and made it a subsidiary of the Daimler Company.
5½-litre 150 bhp Straight-Eight drop-head coupé 1949
Flutes: Daimler's traditional radiator grille topped by now-vestigial cooling fins adopted by 1905
Gottlieb Daimler's railcars "tirelessly ferrying passengers around the Bremen showground as if by magic".
Simms in his Motor Scout in June 1899