People
Some of the men who led “The Daimler” and some whose work gave special assistance.
- The most notable men within Daimler's organisation were: Instone, Martin, Manville and Stratton.
- Gottlieb Daimler inventor of the high-speed petrol engine who lent his name to his friend and English agent, Simms
- Frederick Richard Simms (1863–1944) 1890–1896 consulting mechanical engineer, Gottlieb Daimler’s agent who proposed this car business
- Henry John Lawson (1852–1925) 1896–1904 company promoter, floated Daimler on the London Stock Exchange and started the business
- Henry Sturmey (1857–1930) 1896–1899 journalist, Autocar and Motor, chairman of Daimler
- James Sidney Critchley (1865–1944) 1896–1901 first works manager and a director
- Ernest Martyn Critchley Instone (1872–1932) 1896–1899 son of director Thomas Instone, left to represent RAC in Paris
- Edward George Jenkinson (1837–1919) 1898–1906 chairman of Daimler
- Ernest Martyn Critchley Instone (1872–1932) 1901–1932 manager of Daimler, from 1920 sales Stratton-Instone Stratstone
- Percy Martin (1871–1958) 1901–1934 electrical engineer, American-born managing director of Daimler and BSA director
- Edward Manville (1862–1933) MP 1902–1933 consulting electrical engineer, chairman of Daimler and BSA
- Undecimus Stratton (1868–1929) 1903–1929 courtier. sales Stratton-Instone Stratstone
- Charles Yale Knight (1868–1940) 1907–1908 sleeve-valve engine
- Frederick Lanchester (1868–1946) 1907–1930 consulting engineer, polymath
- Dudley Docker (1862–1944) 1910–1944 industrialist and financier, director and deputy chairman of BSA
- Laurence Henry Pomeroy (1883–1941) 1926–1936 managing director
- Walter Gordon Wilson (1874–1957) preselector gearbox
- Dr. Hermann Föttinger (1877–1945) fluid flywheel
- Edward Henry William Cooke (1875–1951) 1937–1941 managing director of Daimler, director of BSA
- George Hally ( -1975) 1941–1948 managing director of Daimler
- James Leek (1892–1977) 1913–1957 managing director of Daimler and Cycles and Guns, director of BSA
- Bernard Docker (1896–1978) 1939–1956 BSA chairman
- Norah Royce Docker née Turner (1906–1983) 1949–1956 publicist
- John Young Sangster (1896–1977) 1951–1961 BSA chairman
- Edward Turner (1901–1973) 1957-1960 Daimler V8 engine designer
- Eric Turner (1918–1980) 1 January 1960–1971 BSA chairman
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