Daimler / Lanchester

I remember a story that my grandmother told me that employees at Siddeley Deasy, (later Armstrong Siddeley), had to ask the Foreman/Superintendent for a tally or token to go and use the toilet, which would be returned when the person had finished, so that the Individual was basically timed! This may have been common practice at other large factories at the time. It might also have been used to open the cubicle door if wallets etc. had to be left in a locker during working hours. Could this be one of those?

Just a quick question. I believe my father was an apprentice at Daimler in the 1930s in the machine shop and wondered if there was an apprentice group or any registers that were available to confirm this, please?

1932 Lanchester 15/18, TV5728 - Gaydon, 1 Jun 2014

A 1913 Daimler CD, Eaton body, Crosville 7, FM703 - anybody know if this was Coventry-built?

The Crosville Motor Co was in Chester. I would think the chassis was Daimler and the body made by Crosville.

Crosville were the operators. The body was by Eaton.

Daimler chassis at that date were made at the Coventry factory, although I believe some were built in conjunction with AEC of Walthamstow. The CC model was introduced in 1912, launched at the Royal Agricultural Show in Doncaster, the prototype was a double-decker registered DU6552. The model was powered by a 4 cylinder sleeve valve engine rated at 40 h.p. Typical cost would be £825. Many Daimler buses at this time were delivered pre-registered with DU numbers, and Crosville did operate DU2007 from 1913 to 1927 named the Flying Fox. Source: Crosville bus fleet

My father joined the Daimler as an office-boy on leaving school in 1914. In 1917 he was called up and fought in France during the last year of the Great War. On being demobbed he returned to the Daimler and was rewarded with an ash-tray! Soon after he was made redundant.