摘要: |
When we think of Daimler, the double-deckers it supplied to municipal fleets probably first spring to mind; also the rear-engined Fleetlines that took the marque into major company fleets and London Transport in the 1960s and early 1970s. But the Coventry-based manufacturer also was active in the coach market until the mid-1960s, counting many independent operators as loyal customers. That is the theme of this attractive landscape format picture album compiled by Jim Neale, a man with such a lifelong passion for the marque that he named a house Daimville. He has collected photographs and detailed information about Daimler's products since he was a teenager over 50 years ago and has amassed a splendid selection of pictures for this book, mainly of postwar coaches - front-engined CVD6s, underfloor-engined Freelines and rear-engined Roadliners. |