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Daimler production did not get under way until early in 1897, before which time the company's activities consisted of screwing Lawson's patent plate on to imported Panhards and Cannstatt-Daimlers. Neither was the Daimler Motor Company the sole occupant of the Motor Mills, which it shared with the Great Horseless Carriage Company (later the Motor Manufacturing Company) and some Pennington activity. Indeed, it was almost impossible to distinguish between Daimler and MMC products: the two companies were interdependent, Daimler making the chassis and machinery, and MMC the coachwork, with the make of the finished car a matter of company whim. As one former MMC employee recalled: 'The Motor Manufacturing Company was in the main mill building; Daimler was in a shed round the back'. |
