The original British Daimler Company was formed in 1895 to make engines under licence from Gottlieb Daimler in Germany. The company eventually became a stand alone operation and merged with BSA in 1910, the main provider of Royal cars from 1900 until the mid 1950s. Daimler were purchased from BSA by Jaguar in 1960, mainly because Jaguar wanted their factory at Radford in Coventry. From then on most new Daimler models were more luxurious trimmed versions of existing Jaguars such as the Sovereign modelled here, which was based on Jaguars world beating XJ6.

In engineering terms the 1800 range of 1964, seen here as an Austin, was effectively a larger version of the Issigonis concept that had been so successful when used in smaller cars such as the Mini or 1100. The 1800 was designed as a replacement for the Farina, Cambridge/Oxford range.

In 1971 the then Brands Hatch MD, Jon Webb, organised a race that pitted F1 Grand Prix drivers against their team managers in Ford Escort Mexicos. This event was a graet success and this led to Ford loaning Webb twenty mechanically identical Mexicos in Febuary 1973. After sponsorship had been obtained from Shellsport and Avon Tyres the cars were known as the Shellsport Mexicos and ran on Avon cross-ply tyres which were inflated to 45psi. Modifications to the cars were carried out at Ford AVO facility in Aveley and were limited to the fitting of Britax three point harnesses, Bilstein shock absorbers, roll cage, battery cut off and four spoke RS alloy wheels.

The Special Escort Group (SEG) of the  Metropolitan Police is a specialist unit whose job it is to escort almost anything that requires some kind of protection; wheter that be VIPs, high value loads, Category A prisoners or something else that needs to get through traffic without hinderance. Range Rovers are ideal for this work because of their power, strength and visibility.

By the time the Defender was launched in 1983 Rover had made 1.4 million Land Rovers and the Range Rover had been in production for thirteen years; not bad for a model that had been planed mainly as a post war stopgap to be made whilst rationing was still in force. However in 1983 that stop gap model became a marque in it's own right and traditional Land Rovers were christened Land Rover Defenders and fitted with coil spring suspension similar to that used by it's more expensive cousin.

H161 HHJ was built as a show car by sponsors Q8, and faetured in a great deal of pre-event publicity as the car that Malcolm Wilson and Nicky Grist would drive on the 1991 RAC Rally. The actual works car featured four round headlights in place of the standard Sierra ones seen on the publicity car modelled here.

When launched in 1975 the AD071 project or Princess, carried over the tranversely mounte 1.8 and 2.2 litre enginesfrom the car it replaced, the AD017 Landcrab.