Hooper (coachbuilder)
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Hooper & Co. was a British coachbuilding business for many years based in Westminster London. From 1805 to 1959 it was a notably successful maker, to special order, of luxury carriages, both horse-dra
Post-phaeton Windsor Greys in perfect step made for Queen Victoria, 1842
Drags of the Four-in-Hand Club Mr Holroyd, Lord Lonsdale and the Duke of Sutherland (sharing driving) on the box of the drag in the foreground
Tourer 1920 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost chassis
Limousine 1929 on a Rolls-Royce Phantom I chassis
Daimler Company
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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 m
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