Re Daimler:
Somewhere back in the days when Britain stood alone in WWII the Nazi's bombed the village of Coventry damned near into oblivion ... a few days later workers at an auto plant there went in to work and turned out one car, all hand made, to thus thumb their noses at the Nazi louts.
I had thought the car company and workers were Daimler. Anyone confirm or correct? Or was the whole story just wartime propaganda?