United Kingdom · founded 1899

Lanchester Model History

Pioneering British luxury marque (1899–1955) — an engineering trailblazer credited with the first marketed disc brakes, later absorbed into BSA/Daimler.

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Ten
Lanchester's first production car — a clean-sheet, twin-cylinder design that ignored horse-carriage convention.
Tonneau / phaeton · 1900–1905
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Twenty
Lanchester's first four-cylinder car — an overhead-valve Edwardian tourer for the carriage trade.
Touring car · 1904–1911
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Thirty-Eight
A large pre-WWI six-cylinder Lanchester — the firm's flagship until the First World War halted civilian production.
Luxury car · 1910–1914
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Forty
Lanchester's post-WWI flagship — a 6.2-litre overhead-cam six built to rival Rolls-Royce, owned by royalty and maharajas.
Luxury car · 1919–1929
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Twenty-One
A smaller overhead-cam six positioned below the Forty — a lighter, owner-driver Lanchester of the mid-1920s.
Luxury car · 1923–1926
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Thirty
Lanchester's only straight-eight — a 4.4-litre overhead-cam flagship and the last car of the independent company.
Luxury car · 1929–1932
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Eighteen
The first BSA-era Lanchester — a 2.5-litre six derived from the Daimler Light Twenty, with fluid flywheel and hydraulic brakes.
Luxury car · 1932–1940
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Ten
The smallest and best-selling Lanchester ever — a 1.2-litre saloon sharing its chassis with the BSA Ten.
Compact car · 1932–1936
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Light Six
A small six-cylinder Lanchester built by Daimler — a smoother, upmarket sibling to the four-cylinder Ten.
Compact car · 1935–1936
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Fourteen Roadrider
A late-1930s six-cylinder saloon, near-identical to the Daimler New Fifteen, ended by the Second World War.
Saloon · 1937–1940
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Ten (LD10)
Lanchester's post-war small saloon — a 1.3-litre four built by Daimler, with bodies by Briggs and later Barker.
Saloon · 1946–1951
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Fourteen / Leda
A 2-litre post-war saloon (the Leda being the export version) — among the last Lanchesters before the marque was retired.
Saloon · 1950–1954
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Lanchester models

Ten

Twenty

Thirty-Eight

Forty

Twenty-One

Thirty

Eighteen

Ten

Light Six

Fourteen Roadrider

Ten (LD10)

Fourteen / Leda