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| rdfs:comment | - The model was introduced immediately before the start, for Britain, of the Second World War when the company concentrated on the manufacture of military vehicles. Most DB18s were produced after 1945, therefore. To contemporaries the model was generally known as the Daimler 2½-litre until Daimler adopted the North American habit of giving their cars names (although not on any badgework), and a slightly updated version of the car was introduced in October 1948 at the London Motor Show, "principally for export" and branded as the Daimler Consort. The updates included the integration of the firewall into the body rather than it being part of the chassis, a move from rod operated mechanical brakes to a Girling-Bendix hydraulic front and rod operated rear system, incorporating the head lights in
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| valvetrain | - OHV, pushrod cam-in-block valves canted 15 degrees in special combustion chambers
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| Power | - Tax rating 18.02 hp
- from 1946 @ 4000 rpm.
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| Name | - Daimler Eighteen
- Daimler Eighteen 2½-litre engine
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| Caption | - Consort six-light four-door saloon 1952 example
- Empress saloon body by Hooper 1951 example
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| Production | - 1939
- September 1938 - 1953 introduced in Daimler Fifteen
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| body style | - four-door saloon
- numerous coachbuilt versions, standard catalogued models by Daimler subsidiaries Hooper and Barker , others as arranged with coachbuilder by customer
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| coolingsystem | - water-cooled thermostatically controlled, centrifugal pump and 4-blade fan
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| fuelsystem | - AC mechanical fuel pump
- Horizontal S.U. carburettor
- dual carburettors on Special Sports
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| AKA | - Daimler 2½-litre
- Daimler Consort
- Daimler Eighteen
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| Block | - cast iron, aluminium alloy pistons
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| transmission | - 4
- Overdrive on Special Sports
- an open propellor shaft and underhung worm-driven axle, hypoid bevel from June 1950
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| abstract | - The model was introduced immediately before the start, for Britain, of the Second World War when the company concentrated on the manufacture of military vehicles. Most DB18s were produced after 1945, therefore. To contemporaries the model was generally known as the Daimler 2½-litre until Daimler adopted the North American habit of giving their cars names (although not on any badgework), and a slightly updated version of the car was introduced in October 1948 at the London Motor Show, "principally for export" and branded as the Daimler Consort. The updates included the integration of the firewall into the body rather than it being part of the chassis, a move from rod operated mechanical brakes to a Girling-Bendix hydraulic front and rod operated rear system, incorporating the head lights into the front guards, and providing a badge plate behind the front bumper with a more curved radiator grille. The car used a 2,522 cc in-line six-cylinder, pushrod ohv engine fed by a single SU carburetter. Throughout its life, 70 bhp was claimed, though a change in the gearing in 1950 was marked by an increase in maximum speed from 76 mph (122 km/h) to 82 mph (132 km/h) for the saloon, while the acceleration time from 0 – 50 mph (80 km/h) improved from 17.9 to 16.9 seconds. By the standards of the time the car was brisker than it looked. The car was supplied with the Daimler Fluid Flywheel coupled to a 4-speed Wilson Pre-selector gearbox. The independent front suspension used coil springs, while the back axle was suspended using a traditional semi-elliptical set-up. The chassis was "underslung" at the rear with the main chassis members passing below the rear axle. In mid-1950 the restricted ground clearance was improved by the adoption of a conventional hypoid bevel drive to the rear axle replacing the traditional Daimler underslung worm drive which had hampered sales outside Britain. The interior was fitted out with traditional “good taste” using mat leather and polished wood fillets. Sales levels were respectable: 3,355 Daimler 2½-litres were produced and 4,250 Consorts
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