Lanchester Light Six History
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History
Built for Lanchester by The Daimler Company, the Light Six (1934–1936) put a 1,378 cc six-cylinder engine, making about 34 bhp, into a small-car body — offering six-cylinder smoothness in a class usually served by fours. It had a near-identical twin in the BSA Light Six and used the Daimler fluid flywheel with a Wilson pre-selective gearbox.
Roughly 1,075 were made. The Light Six reflected BSA-era Lanchester's strategy of moving the historically grand marque downmarket into smaller luxury cars, before the line was reorganised around the Eleven and the Fourteen Roadrider later in the decade.
Body styles
- Six-light saloon
- Four-light saloon
- Drophead coupé
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