Lanchester Light Six

The Lanchester Light Six was a small luxury car in the twelve tax horsepower class made for the Lanchester Motor Company by the BSA subsidiary Daimler. Announced in September 1934, it was the better finished half of an almost identical pair, the other being the BSA Light Six, and followed the Lanchester 15/18 of three years earlier and the Ten of 1932 as the third break from the large Lanchesters of the past. Its new six cylinder engine followed the lines of the Eighteen but with a much smaller bore and stroke, 1,378 cc against 2,390 cc, and sat in the chassis of the four cylinder Ten. The popular saloons came in six light and four light versions, priced from 365 to 375 pounds, with a drophead coupe at 390 pounds. It became the Fourteen or Roadrider in 1937.