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Then in June 1947 purchase tax was doubled — home market sales had already been restricted to cars for " essential purposes ".

Petrol remained rationed, ten gallons a month.

Princess Elizabeth took her 2½-litre drophead coupé, an 18th-birthday gift from her father, to Malta, where her new husband was stationed.

The King took delivery of a new open tourer straight-eight in March 1949.

In the commodities boom caused by the 1950 Korean War Australasian woolgrowers reported the new electrically operated limousine-division to be ' just the thing ' if over-heated sheepdogs licked the back of a driver's ears.

The newest royal Daimler's transmission failed again and again.

This schedule shows where what should have been Daimler repeat-orders went to.

Daimler subsidiary Hoopers at least got to make some of the bodies.