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There are many small inaccuracies in this article.
The Regent Hotel in Hong Kong does not exist as such anymore, and they certainly do not have 22 limousines at this moment. They bought 22 limousines in total, but I doubt that they had them all together at one moment in time. Compare this to the Queen Mother: she bought five DS420s in total, but consecutively between 1970 and 1992. She never had more than one at the same time (as far as I know).
The 1984 Office Car was definitely not built for John Egan. It was an experiment that was part of the plans to enter the US market, and has only been used for promotional purposes. It did not have a fax (I remember that I had to buy a fax for my employer in 1983/1984 and it costed the equivalent of 25.000+ dollars. A fax was much rarer than a computer in those days!).
The fascia definitely resembles the ones in the Mark X and 420G very much.
The article states: "4116 were produced". According to the JDHT records, 4141 limos and 903 hearses were produced.
Hendrik-Jan Thomassen <hjt@ATComputing.nl> DS420 owner and webmaster of www.myDS420.info 02 September 2006
Words like sluggard are not encyclopedic.-- 149.136.25.254 21:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC) for Talk:Al95521
I believe the hearse used for the Queen Mother's funeral was a Daimler XJ6 conversion, not a DS420, although the mourners cars may well have been DS420s. RGCorris ( talk) 11:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
The original press release has Egan associated with the mobile boardroom vehicle, but does not say he designed or intended to use it. 15:39, 19 March 2009 141.151.65.227
The original press release does NOT have Egan associated with the mobile boardroom vehicle. See the text here: http://www.myDS420.info/officecar/press1.1.l.html Several uninformed sources mix up this mobile boardroom car (the "Executive Limousine", a 1984 car) with the car built for Mr. Egan (a 1987 car). The latter had no office equipment except for a mobile telephone. Compare http://www.myDS420.info/officecar.html with http://www.myDS420.info/gallery/egan_limo/limousine/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:982:C487:1:6053:E522:DA0E:9100 ( talk) 10:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned HH's throne/toilet as the most bespoke personalized interior modification made to one of these vehicles at the factory. 15:39, 19 March 2009 141.151.65.227
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"No direct replacement was produced by Jaguar, although coachbuilders have adapted the Daimler version of the XJ6." So what exactly did this look like? Was it a slightly stretched XJ6 sedan? If anyone knows of a photo it would be a good addition to the article. -- 76.115.67.114 ( talk) 04:24, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Did 'Daimler Motor Company Limited' even exist when this was made? That makes it look like it was an independent company using its old legal pre Jaguar name when from what I've read it was basically just a marque/brand or whatever of Jaguar after 1960 and then part of BMC/British Leyland. And also in the lead it states 'produced by The Daimler Company Limited' which is a mouthful (does 'Limited' really need to be there?) and I question its accuracy. Victoriosissimus ( talk) 14:27, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
On the whole this article is riddled with grammar and spelling errors, and a biased and unencyclopedic tone. It reads as though it was written by a "royal news" paparazzo working for a supermarket tabloid. To fix this will likely be a large undertaking, which I'm not wont to do myself. I will add the copy edit template; it shouldn't be removed until significant effort has gone into fixing the article. CplDHicks2 ( talk) 02:38, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
The Daimler DS420, also known as simply the Daimler Limousine, is a large limousine produced by The Daimler Company Limited between 1968 and 1992. The model had been popular from the beginning with suppliers of chauffeur services, hotels, funeral services, mayors of larger cities, ministries or other state representatives abroad and ambassadors. But most important the Daimler Limousines until today serve the royal houses of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg. No other model of any make had been delivered to more reigning monarchs than the DS 420 Limousine.
The Daimler DS420 is widely used among the funeral trade, serving as both the executive car for mourning relatives and the hearse for the deceased, after customization to fit funeral needs. The most prominent funeral with a Daimler Hearse and a Daimler Limousine was that of Diana, the Princess of Wales in 1997. In a first act she was repatriated on 31 August by the Prince of Wales from France to RAF Northolt where her coffin changed from the BAe 146 CC2 Queens Flight airplane to the 1985 Daimler Hearse with registration B626MRK, owned by the Funeral Directors Leverton&Sons to be brought to St. James Palace for a Laying-in-State. Her two sisters followed in the 1992 Daimler Limousine of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. with the registration NGN2.
@ Dhtwiki: Hi, are you happy with the changes you have made? I mean do you propose to make any more? Thanks, Eddaido ( talk) 03:37, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
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There are many small inaccuracies in this article.
The Regent Hotel in Hong Kong does not exist as such anymore, and they certainly do not have 22 limousines at this moment. They bought 22 limousines in total, but I doubt that they had them all together at one moment in time. Compare this to the Queen Mother: she bought five DS420s in total, but consecutively between 1970 and 1992. She never had more than one at the same time (as far as I know).
The 1984 Office Car was definitely not built for John Egan. It was an experiment that was part of the plans to enter the US market, and has only been used for promotional purposes. It did not have a fax (I remember that I had to buy a fax for my employer in 1983/1984 and it costed the equivalent of 25.000+ dollars. A fax was much rarer than a computer in those days!).
The fascia definitely resembles the ones in the Mark X and 420G very much.
The article states: "4116 were produced". According to the JDHT records, 4141 limos and 903 hearses were produced.
Hendrik-Jan Thomassen <hjt@ATComputing.nl> DS420 owner and webmaster of www.myDS420.info 02 September 2006
Words like sluggard are not encyclopedic.-- 149.136.25.254 21:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC) for Talk:Al95521
I believe the hearse used for the Queen Mother's funeral was a Daimler XJ6 conversion, not a DS420, although the mourners cars may well have been DS420s. RGCorris ( talk) 11:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
The original press release has Egan associated with the mobile boardroom vehicle, but does not say he designed or intended to use it. 15:39, 19 March 2009 141.151.65.227
The original press release does NOT have Egan associated with the mobile boardroom vehicle. See the text here: http://www.myDS420.info/officecar/press1.1.l.html Several uninformed sources mix up this mobile boardroom car (the "Executive Limousine", a 1984 car) with the car built for Mr. Egan (a 1987 car). The latter had no office equipment except for a mobile telephone. Compare http://www.myDS420.info/officecar.html with http://www.myDS420.info/gallery/egan_limo/limousine/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:982:C487:1:6053:E522:DA0E:9100 ( talk) 10:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned HH's throne/toilet as the most bespoke personalized interior modification made to one of these vehicles at the factory. 15:39, 19 March 2009 141.151.65.227
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"No direct replacement was produced by Jaguar, although coachbuilders have adapted the Daimler version of the XJ6." So what exactly did this look like? Was it a slightly stretched XJ6 sedan? If anyone knows of a photo it would be a good addition to the article. -- 76.115.67.114 ( talk) 04:24, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Did 'Daimler Motor Company Limited' even exist when this was made? That makes it look like it was an independent company using its old legal pre Jaguar name when from what I've read it was basically just a marque/brand or whatever of Jaguar after 1960 and then part of BMC/British Leyland. And also in the lead it states 'produced by The Daimler Company Limited' which is a mouthful (does 'Limited' really need to be there?) and I question its accuracy. Victoriosissimus ( talk) 14:27, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
On the whole this article is riddled with grammar and spelling errors, and a biased and unencyclopedic tone. It reads as though it was written by a "royal news" paparazzo working for a supermarket tabloid. To fix this will likely be a large undertaking, which I'm not wont to do myself. I will add the copy edit template; it shouldn't be removed until significant effort has gone into fixing the article. CplDHicks2 ( talk) 02:38, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
The Daimler DS420, also known as simply the Daimler Limousine, is a large limousine produced by The Daimler Company Limited between 1968 and 1992. The model had been popular from the beginning with suppliers of chauffeur services, hotels, funeral services, mayors of larger cities, ministries or other state representatives abroad and ambassadors. But most important the Daimler Limousines until today serve the royal houses of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg. No other model of any make had been delivered to more reigning monarchs than the DS 420 Limousine.
The Daimler DS420 is widely used among the funeral trade, serving as both the executive car for mourning relatives and the hearse for the deceased, after customization to fit funeral needs. The most prominent funeral with a Daimler Hearse and a Daimler Limousine was that of Diana, the Princess of Wales in 1997. In a first act she was repatriated on 31 August by the Prince of Wales from France to RAF Northolt where her coffin changed from the BAe 146 CC2 Queens Flight airplane to the 1985 Daimler Hearse with registration B626MRK, owned by the Funeral Directors Leverton&Sons to be brought to St. James Palace for a Laying-in-State. Her two sisters followed in the 1992 Daimler Limousine of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. with the registration NGN2.
@ Dhtwiki: Hi, are you happy with the changes you have made? I mean do you propose to make any more? Thanks, Eddaido ( talk) 03:37, 23 August 2020 (UTC)