2026 marks 130 years since the UK’s first production car emerged on to British streets in 1986. Daimler’s ‘first’ coincided with the abolishing of the speed-restricting ‘red flag’ and thereby marked the beginning of the UK’s auto-industry in which The Daimler Motor Company Ltd was to play a massive role. 
At the PCCCRS this year, The Daimler & Lanchester Owners’ Club will work on several cars spanning the mid-1930s to early 1980s, which together epitomise key milestones in automotive technology: from the smooth and fool-proof paring of Daimler’s fluid-flywheel with the Wilson epicyclic pre-select gearbox, as used in the car shown, to the giant leap in safety provided by all-round disc-brakes - an invention of the 1890s, first utilised by the Lanchester Motor Company in 1902. Please join us for a chat on our stand #5-490 in Hall 5 as we bring three of these lovely cars ‘back to life’.