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This web page shows various magazine articles in French, Dutch, German, and other non-English languages. They are shown in chronological order from 1968-1999. Other web pages shows non-English magazine articles from 2000-2019 and 2020-present. Also, there are parallel web pages with English language articles 1968-1999, 2000-2019 and 2020-present.
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Nieuwe Daimler Limousine
Magazine: Autokampioen Date of publication: (#24), 15 juni 1968 Language: Dutch This article follows the text from the 1968 Press Release quite closely. Does the engine on page 2 (click here to enlarge it) really look like an XK engine? |
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BLMC's prestigewagen
The Dutch daily newspaper "Het Vrije Volk" published this article on June 27th, 1968, which was three weeks after the initial press presentation in London. As in the article here-above, the photos and text are derived from the 1968 Press Release. Finding this clipping was a big surprise, especially since it took until November 1970 before the first DS420 was sold to the Netherlands. During the entire production span that imported car was only followed by less than a handful others. |
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Daimler Limousine
The article features car SHP292N, which was Jaguar's Royal Household Demonstrator. It is also shown in this English language magazine article. It is vehicle no. 1M2794, built date Aug 2nd, 1974. |
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Zeit ist Geld
Magazine: Auto Motor Sport Date of publication: 7 March 1984 Language: German
This article describes the 1984 Office Car (A930KHP).
The title of the article translates to: "Time is money".
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Daimler da lavoro
Magazine: Quattroruote Date of publication: Maggio 1984 Language: Italian The title: "Daimler for work"; an article on the office car; May 1984 |
This article features the famous office car, to which an entire page elsewhere on this site has been devoted.
Near the end of this article the author writes that the German authorities up till now have banned the DS420 from admittance, because of insufficient free space between driver and steering wheel.
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This article was also published in Italian language in the "AutoCapital" magazine of August 1984.
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Daimler Limousine
Et s'il n'en reste qu'une Magazine: Auto Moto Rétro Date of publication: (#71), July 1986 Language: French Several pictures in this article show that the car has a rear side window of the wind-down type, i.e. before summer 1972. The "Characteristiques techniques" at the end of the article mention the Borg Warner gearbox, which was discontinued in 1980. These are of course very strange details for an article published in 1986. However, the introductory text says that, after a career of 18 years, this car will -at last- be distributed in France. These "18 years" possily have a relation to the publication date of 1968+18=1986. A remarkable point is on the lower left picture of page 2: the rear windows have no winding handles because they are electrical, but the driver (page 4) has to wind by hand. |
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Une auto moderne en habit d'autrefois
Magazine: Auto & Prestige Date of publication: (#2), Aug/Sept 1986 Language: French |
The previous French article (Auto Moto Rétro) already discussed the fact that in 1986 the French Jaguar distributor (Axel Vilaseca) decided to bring the limo to the French market. But he also decided that a batch of cars should be equipped without division between driver and passenger. The pictures in this article are from one of those cars. Strange enough, the text in the article nowhere touches upon this special interior, and even describes the non-existent division in some detail. One of the pictures on the forelast page shows the central gearshift handle in the floor, which is for the GM400 gearbox. But the technical specs on the same page talk about a Borg Warner gearbox (which was discontinued several years earlier). All this -and more- suggests that the text of the article is unrelated to the car (709FMF75) in the illustrations. |
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Daimler Limousine
Une Journée Particulière Author: Jean-Claude Letrou Magazine: l'Automobile Date of publication: (Nº488), Février 1987 Language: French |
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More information on the French batch of divisionless cars (some 20 were sold) can be found in the book Jaguar, les berlines by Dominique Pagneux, ed. E.T.A.I. To suit the local taste, almost all cars got two-colour paint: dark grey over light grey, or a beautiful champagne-rose over light goldish brown. They were all without the division wall. The most interesting photos from the DS420 pages in that book appear in this magazine article as well (photos by François Lemeunier). The photos in the book have the license number shielded off, but in this article it is clearly shown: 1882WWH92. |
La Jaguar en Robe du Soir
Author: Michel Leroux
Magazine: Auto Références
Date of publication: (Nº 2), July-August 1989
Language: French
The article features car 2409YP95. The title translates to "The Jaguar in evening gown".
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Der Grosse Daimler: nur mit Chauffeur
Test im Fond Author: Paul Simsa Magazine: MOT Date of publication: 16/1990 Language: German The article features Germany-registered car HG-JD40. The same car probably figured in this 2007 magazine article in German language. Same article published here in 2010 (Daimler now registered MTK-JD700), with photos. |
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L'ultima regina
Author: Alex Roggero Magazine: Auto Capital Date of publication: N.9, September 1990 Language: Italian The article features a UK-registered car A200FLR,
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Fährt der Lord bald Ford?
Vergleich - Chauffeurs-Limousinen Daimler Limousine gegen Coleman Milne Author: Christian Wüst Magazine: Auto Bild Date of publication: 22 December 1990 Language: German |
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Brits tot het bittere einde
The AutoWeek magazine bought the rights for the German article, but published a slightly different main photo. Also, the text was rewritten to eliminate all references to Coleman Milne. The small article (left) is from the AutoWeek of Dec. 21-28 1990, and announces the end of the production for the Limousine. Note that the photo is a colour version of press photo DA1321, shown on the Press Photographs page of this web site. |
Two month before the publication of this article, the same author (and photographer) wrote an article on the same theme in the English language magazine Car. That article features the same demo limo (D800FHP) but has a totally different text. See it here. This particular limousine was fitted with a very special interior, for the use of Sir John Egan, Jaguar's CEO. When the article was written this car was in the collection of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.
Strange enough, this article states that the passengers on the occasional seats travel "opposite to the direction of driving". But this car has the standard forward facing occasional seats, as shown on the photo of page 3.
Also, the photographer managed (on page 3) to change the colour of the interior upholstery from bright red to yellow. See the actual interior of that car here.
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Daimler Limousine, God Save the Queen
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Lichter der Nacht
Note that this car, HG-JD40, already appeared in a 1990 magazine article shown on the page with earlier articles. It also shows in the next article. |
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Mothers Finest
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Magazine: Autopilot
Authors: Alexander Novikov, Dmitri Gronskiy Photos: Dmitri Novokreshchenov Date of publication: December 1998 Language: Russian The title translates to: "History of the disease". The article features car 2119GY33 This article was contributed by Muslim Gedygushev from Moscow.
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