{"id":53,"title":"British Company Formed to Produce Petrol Cars","body":"Daimler was the first company formed in Britain to produce petrol motor cars, which was floated in December 1896 by a financier named Lawson who tried to establish a motor monopoly on Britain. Although the company was meant to manufacturer cars to the designs of the German Daimler company, whose English manufacturing license was acquired by Lawson, the first cars they made, in 1897, were copied from the French Panhard-Levassor design. The engines were of Daimler type as Panhard-Levassor were the licensees of Daimler patents.","firstdate":"0000-00-00","published":"1","created_at":"2015-08-16 21:20:55","updated_at":"2015-08-16 21:20:55"}