Daimler Engine Badge

The replacement badge after finishing

Daimler SP250 Dart, recipient vehicle for our badge

The recipient vehicle

Classic car enthusiasts often find it difficult to obtain replacement badges, particularly for rare models. When one dental surgeon needed an engine badge for his Daimler, he solved the problem by taking an impression from the badge on a friend's car. From this, we were able to create a new casting which preserves the sand-cast texture of the original component. Unlike Daimler's badges, which were manufactured in chrome-plated brass, our badge was cast in solid Biosil 'f' cobalt chrome, which should long outlast the car.

Our casting now graces the dynamo cover of a 1963 Daimler SP250 "Dart", one of 2,645 manufactured by Daimler between 1959 and 1964, primarily for the American market. The engine is the standard 2.5 litre, 140 b.h.p. OHV V8 power plant which was developed for the model, and the badge now nestles in the 'V' of its cylinders.

Replacement Daimler badge fitted to dynamo cover

Our casting in place in the engine bay

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Figure 1: class 3 jaw relationship, left-hand side

This case was first presented to Steve in 1993. The patient has a class 3 bite, as seen in figs 1,2 and 3, and wanted a denture made to present a class 1 appearance. Previous attempts had failed because the anterior teeth needed to be set so far forward of the ridge that they destabilised the whole appliance even with clasps. The challenge was to manufacture an upper denture that would be at once cosmetically pleasing, retentive and stable.