CONDITIONS OF SALE
- Delivery is made at works. Every endeavour is made to meet
the wishes of purchasers, but delivery on a specified date cannot
be guaranteed. Should the Company be prevented from making
delivery owing to any Act of God, strikes, lockouts, combinations
of workmen, accidents, riots, fire, existence of war, or any
cause whatever beyond its control, or should the Company
supercede, or alter, or abandon the design or type of car or
chassis contracted for, it shall be at liberty to cancel or
suspend the agreement without incurring any liability for any
loss or damage which may arise to the purchaser therefrom.
- The Company reserves the right to alter the design or to
substitute a corresponding type without notice.
- Should the Purchaser not pay the Company for the car and/or
chassis on due date, the Company may, unless otherwise mutually
arranged, resell the same after ten days' notice and any loss
sustained shall be repaid to the Company by the Purchaser.
- If before delivery the Company's prices for cars or chassis
shall be increased or decreased the altered price be deemed to be
substituted for the prices mentioned.
- If a customer's car shall be driven by one of the Company's
employees, the employee shall to deemed for all purposes to be
the servant of the customer who shall be entitled to all rights
and shall discharge all liabilities incident to that relationship.
- Any contract of sale may be declared by the Company to be at
an end if at any time the name of the purchaser being a motor
trader shall appear in the "Stop List" of the Motor
Trade Association or if the purchaser commits any breach of any
of these conditions, or not being a limited company becomes
bankrupt, or compounds, or makes any arrangement with his
creditors or if being a Limited Company such Company goes into
liquidation whether compulsory or voluntary or has a Receiver
appointed of its assets. In any such case the Company may resell
the car and/or chassis and any loss sustained shall he repaid to
the Company by the purchaser.
- The relationship between the Daimler Company and motor traders
(notwithstanding that they are known in the trade as "Agents")
is that which exists between vendor and purchaser and is not that
which exists between principal and agent,
- No car and/or chassis shall without the written permission of
the Company, be exhibited at any exhibition in the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland other than any exhibition held by
the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited or
approved of by that Society for the exhibition of motor vehicles
and goods by its bond-signers. In case of any breach of these
provisions the Purchaser shall pay to the Company for every such
breach the sum of £250 (two hundred and fifty pounds) as
ascertained and liquidated damages which it is agreed the Company
would sustain, or such other sum as the Company may be ordered to
pay by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited.
Any sum due in respect of such damages may be assigned by the
Company to anyone.
- Every car or chassis carries the following express agreements,
which take the place of and exclude all conditions, warranties
and liabilities whatsoever which exist either by Common Law,
statute or otherwise.
- (a) If within five years from the date when the car or
chassis first left the Company's Works at Coventry, any defect is
alleged by the owner in the materials or workmanship [except as
specified in (b)]. or
(b) If within twelve calendar months from the date when the car
or chassis first left the Company's Works at Coventry, any defect
is alleged by the owner in the materials or workmanship used in
the painting, varnishing, enamelling, or upholstering or in any
other work used in the decoration of a car or chassis (which must
be dealt with under Clause 11 Sub clause 1).