Lanchester Eighteen History
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Announced after BSA's takeover and still engineered by George Lanchester, the Eighteen (also marketed as the 15/18) was a version of the Daimler Light Twenty fitted with hydraulic brakes and Daimler's fluid flywheel and pre-selective gearbox. Its 2,504 cc six-cylinder overhead-valve engine marked Lanchester's move into the medium-luxury class BSA wanted to fill between Daimler and the cheaper BSA cars.
About 2,650 were built up to 1940. The Eighteen established the pattern for every later Lanchester: a Daimler-built, Daimler-derived car wearing the Lanchester badge, refined rather than overtly sporting.
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- Saloon
- Drophead coupé
- Limousine
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