You are buying a deep acid etched brass "BRAG PLATE" for a vintage Daimler car. It tells that their transmission is as "Smooth as Flight". Hmmm,......... must not have ever hit any bumpy air. Hee Hee! The beautiful art work features a bird at both ends, and it looks like a twin engine airplane is heading right to you. Very creative art work in this unique data plate. Part Number DPS-0132
Used on British & German built vehicles, however I just got word from another customer that knows all about these plates. He says that this art work for this part would have been built in England, and used on British built cars. Here is what he has to say about this part.....
. This item represents (and very well too) engineering entirely of British origin. The Daimler Motor Car Company was established in the UK in the late 1890s and bought by the Birmingham Small Arms company (whose early products, I'm sorry to say, found their way to the battlefields of the American Civil War) at the end of the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Later still, BSA bought the Lanchester brand too (c1930) only to sell its car manufacturing business to Jaguar (c1960).
This data plate is ready for your restoration project, or data plate collection. It measures 2" X 5 3/4" and has 2 mounting holes.
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NOTE: from customer.........
You have an interesting piece:To me it looks like the British Daimler Motor Company that owned the BSA Motorcycle.
The chairman reported to the shareholders at their Annual General Meeting in November 1933 "The Daimler Fluid Flywheel Transmission now has three years of success behind it and more than 11,000 vehicles, ranging from 10 h.p. passenger cars to double-deck omnibuses, aggregating over 160,000 h.p., incorporate this transmission. . it has yet to be proved that any other system offers all the advantages of the Daimler Fluid Flywheel Transmission. Our Daimler, Lanchester and BSA cars remain what we set out to make them—the aristocrats of their class and type. . . . We have also received numerous inquiries from overseas markets." These transmissions remained in production until replaced by Borg-Warner fully automatic units beginning in the mid-1950s. Late in that period a new Lanchester model with a Hobbs fully automatic gearbox did not, in the end, enter full production.
Yet another customers knowledge regarding this data plate;