Daimler Conquest

The Daimler Conquest was an automobile built by The Daimler Company Limited in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1958. Based on the Lanchester Fourteen, it replaced the Daimler Consort, and sales suffered from rising prices and the fuel shortage of the Suez Crisis; production ended by January 1958, before a replacement was ready. It used a 2,433 cc straight-six developed from the four-cylinder engine of the Lanchester Fourteen and Leda, with 75 bhp and a cast iron head, while the 1954 Conquest Century had an alloy head, larger valves, higher compression and twin SU carburettors for 100 bhp. The whole car appears to have been developed within four months of Bernard Docker taking over as managing director of Daimler in January 1953.