Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club logo service

This page is a service to the Club's branch secretaries, magazine editors, event organisers and other interested parties to provide quality club logos for publicity on behalf of the DLOC.

#1 (this sample 410×38 pixels):	#2 (sample 113×122 pixels):
#3 (this sample 255×60 pixels):	#4 (sample 148×100 pixels):
#5 (this sample 113×34 pixels):	#6 (sample 110×38 pixels):
Six different lay outs are available, as shown above. The sample sizes are for reference purposes only; you choose your own size preferences from the form here below. The text "Owners' Club" is typeset in a font called NimbusRomNo9L-Medi. As an aid in producing consistent typography you can type single phrase texts in the textbox below, and get them displayed in this same Nimbus font. Only characters from the so-called Latin-1 character set are supported. #0 textbox :

Unfortunately, the "Smooth as Flight" flywheel-logo is not available since the Club does not (yet) have a vectorised computer version on file. But we are currently working on it.

Please help: if any club member could provide a good quality scan of the long version Lanchester logo (see image) and/or of the BSA car logo we would appreciate it. Preferably a 600 dpi scan in a bitmapped format (PNM, BMP) or GIF or PNG. Note that the JPEG-format is useless for our purpose.

Select your lay out:

Characters filled solid, or stroked/outlines only:
    filled solid    outlines only

For use on paper or on screen:
    Paper (Encapsulated PostScript)    Paper (PostScript)
    Screen (gif)    Screen (png)    Screen (jpeg)
Unfortunately, we'll have to deliver gif in uncompressed format; png and jpeg are compressed;
PostScripts are delivered as source texts.

Select the size: for the PostScript types the size measures in points (0.014 inch=0.353 mm), for the screen types in pixels.
You may specify one or both dimensions. If you specify only one, the other will be derived from the original aspect ratio. If you specify both, the software will calculate a "best fit" within these values. This will add extra padding space either above+below, or left+right of the image. The initial height "200" is an example only.
      Width:    Height:

Extra margin to be added (optional):   This margin is additional to the selected width & height, and thus will be added to each of the four sides.

Select the colour:
    black    white    red

Select the background colour:
    white    black    transparent    compose my own:
If you want to compose your own background colour, then select red/green/blue percentages here:
    red: %; green: %; blue: %.
The small rectangle to the right shows your current colour selection.

Transparent background is only supported with the 'gif' and 'png' formats. If you choose a transparent background, it is still prudent to fill in the background percentages to match the expected background colour of your final artwork. This allows the "anti-alias" mechanism to gradually work towards that colour, producing smoother edges as a result. Therefore: always start with an explicitly selected background colour, and only switch to transparent after you have found the appropriate background colour match expressed in percentages.

As an aid in checking transparency, you may select a contrasting display background colour to be shown under the preview. This will not become part of the end product:
   yellow   magenta   cyan   white   light gray   black

For reasons of performance and security, this web page will shrink excessive size requests. However, downloaded PostScript versions of the logos can easily be modified to boost their scale by virtually any factor. The files have clear instructions embedded, and simple editing tools, such as Linux' evim or Windows' Notepad editor, are suitable for this task, This way, professional printing shops can produce crisp banner texts at the largest sizes that their printing equipment can possibly handle. Please contact the webmaster if further guidance is needed.

The vectorised versions of the Daimler and the Lanchester logos were kindly made available by John Kennedy of "Design Renaissance", on behalf of the Daimler & Lanchester Interest Group in Adelaide, South Australia.