http://localhost:8080/cars-blood-sweat-gears-humber Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/cars-blood-sweat-gears-humber#comment-71452 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:17:36 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=16282#comment-71452 I have read your article Blood, Sweat and Gears with great interest. We have recently acquired a unique Daimler DE27 which was believed to have been a vehicle owned and one used by Sir Winston Churchill. The vehicle was commissioned by the British Admiralty delivered July 1939 wearing registration RN0108. Enquiries with the Daimler club back in 1987 confirm delivery to Admiralty in July 1939 and a photo does exist of the vehicle with the RN registration, complete with headlight cover and white perimeter lines. The vehicle later appeared with registrations LLT422 when it was sold to the Iranian embassy in 1947 and again as ESU148 when sold to an Irish party leader. We are shortly to embark on a restoration project of the vehicle and would love to find out if you had any knowledge of the vehicle.
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James, last month I answered a similar question, below. I cannot add to anything I said then. There is absolutely nothing in the Churchill Archives to suggest Churchill owned or even used any Daimler except the Model 35 (GW7470) his friends bought him in 1932. The Admiralty, like all offices of State, owned cars, and if a ’39 was in the pool, there’s a chance Churchill rode in it when he was First Lord (September 1939 to May 1940). But he certainly never owned it.
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(February 2024) That Daimler may have gone to the Admiralty but I don’t know if WSC ever used it. I found no record of him using anything but government pool Humbers once the war started. He certainly didn’t own another Daimler after the ’32 Model 35 (GW7470) which he sold when the war started. A ’32 purporting to be the same car was tarted up with a bulldog mascot when it was restored.

]]> http://localhost:8080/cars-blood-sweat-gears-humber#comment-68842 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:48:30 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=16282#comment-68842 Good work, Dick. Missed you at Hershey this year! Tom

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