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Your despatch rider was compelled to follow in the wake of a large and fast Daimler for twenty-five miles, and at the end of it he did not know which was him and which dust. We came upon the 15th, shivering in the morning cold, and waiting for some French motor-buses. Then we rushed on to St Pol, which was crammed full of French transport, and on to Chateau Bryas.
"You are the new driver my father has engaged?" "Yes, sir, I am the same." "I hope you understand powerful cars. Did my father tell you that ours is a steam car?" "He talked about a fifty-seven Daimler, sir." "But you have had experience with steam cars " "How did you know that, sir?" He smiled softly. "We have made inquiries naturally, we should do so." "Then you have not been misinformed.
They seemed to be in particularly good spirits, and they told us that the house had just been struck by a shell, that the big Daimler ambulance had been standing outside, and that its bonnet had been riddled by the shrapnel bullets.
However, old Hazlewood evidently thought there was, and seemed frightfully pleased about it He said he had a car of his own, a sixty h.p. Daimler, and that he'd like to see me drive it. I said I'd take him for a spin any time he liked. I gave him a hint that we might start immediately after lunch and run up to Belfast in time for dinner. With a car like that I could have done it easy.
A steering apparatus was placed both fore and aft, and at a safe distance below the main structure were fixed, also forward and aft, on aluminium platforms, two Daimler motor engines of 16-horse power, working aluminium propellers of four blades at the rate of 1,000 revolutions a minute.
"Oh, come, come," says he, "don't be huffy. I only wanted to go as far as Portman Square." "Then call a furniture van," says I, "and perhaps they'll get you aboard." My dander was up, I tell you, for I was on the box of as pretty a Daimler landaulette as ever came out of Coventry, and if there's anything I never want to be, it's the driver of a pillar-box with a flag in his left ear.
In 1900 our road traction was carried on by means of horses; now, especially in the large cities, it is already more than half mechanical, and at the present rate of progress it bids fair to be soon entirely horseless. About the year 1885 Daimler was experimenting with models of a small motor engine, and the following year he fitted one of his most successful models to a light wagonette.
The crank-case of this two-cylinder vertical Daimler engine was the only part made of aluminium, and even with this no attempt was made to attain lightness, for a circular flange was cast at the bottom to form a stand for the engine during machining and erection.
"And if he engages us we'll take him on in turns, so that the emoluments won't have to be doubled." "Yes because he mightn't like paying twice over." "Yes and while the preliminaries are being settled we could be learning to drive Uncle Arthur's car." "Yes except that it's a Daimler, and aren't they different?" "Yes but only about the same difference as there is between a man and a woman.
Development of the early Daimler type brought about the four-cylinder vertical Mercedes-Daimler engine of 85 horse-power, with cylinders of 5.5 diameter with 5.9 inch stroke, the cylinders being cast in two pairs. The overhead arrangement of valves was adopted, and in later designs push-rods were eliminated, the overhead cam-shaft being adopted in their place.
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