Lanchester Light Six 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.