The 1950s were the time of Teddy boys and Brylcreem, rock 'n' roll, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and - as far as Southampton was concerned - the colourful couple Sir Bernard and Lady Docker.

It is the luxury limousine designed by a former showgirl who dreamed it would bring glamour and pizzazz to gloomy post-war Britain. Instead, the ill-fated Daimler Stardust nearly bankrupted its makers ...