The history of Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes or short (and sometimes even "Benz" or "mercenary") is pretty interesting. Mercedes is a German company founded in 1871. In the beginning there were three people - Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in common with Karl Benz. Karl Benz and the other two were able to invent the car with a combustion engine independently. It 'very interesting, but they were only 60 miles away at this time.
KarlBenz in Mannheim. He had a shop there, the place where he invented the first real car was powered by a combustion engine. The year was 1885 and next year Karl Benz was granted a patent for his new creation.
The car was called the "Benz Patent Motor Car", and had three wheels and the design resembled a horse-drawn carriage, perhaps because it has taken the most important design model of a machine. The first engine Karl Benz patented in 1879 and wasdesigned by him.
Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach were granted a patent a year before Karl Benz, the car model of the combustion engine. The year was 1885 and the exact date - August 29. The engine is believed to have made the first prototype of the modern gas engine and call it "grandfather clock engine".
Next year Gottlieb Daimler purchased a stagecoach in which you plan to combustion engine has been set. Many people in these purchases inTime, but Gottlieb Daimler is perhaps the first in the head with the idea of the engine. Daimler and Maybach worked together to take the diligence to meet the needs of the engine. Official Mercedes words that will be used for this model a "horseless carriage". And 'no horses, but with conventional combustion engine and tiller steering.
Shortly after, in 1889 they built a complete model from scratch, the first automobile was driven by four-engine Stoke. It 'was againwith four wheels and after the founding of the DMG in 1890 were the first model of the car two years later, in 1892 to sell.
On the other hand Karl Benz was the first model was sold in 1888 - a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach was able to build their model. Karl Benz was that after some refinement of his model car and maybe he had this advantage over the years because they do not start from scratch like Daimler and Maybach did.
In 1899,Car made by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in a small town near Stuttgart has a role in a race driven by Emil Jellinek. Jellinek was a diplomat and businessman, and was very excited about the whole idea around automobiles. In 1896 he went to see the engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, and immediately after them he bought his first car, car - the Phoenix. An interesting story on that car is painted the name of Emil Jellinek's daughter Mercedes AdrianaManuela Ramona Jellinek on the car for good luck. Years after a lot of cars named.
Jellinek wanted faster cars, and that the 1900 DMG was the first of his daughter, have names. It seems that the idea of Jellinek, named after his daughter was possessed, because he signed a contract for 550 and 000 marks for the purchase of 36 new models of cars with 35 horsepower engine offered only with the name of his daughter in the car. see The new engine was the Daimler-Mercedes engineas only the developer's name and Mercedes.
Very soon after he cut a deal for another 36 models, but from another series - with 8 hp engines. Then, at a price higher than the market could sell these models in the United States, Belgium, France and Austria-Hungary and quickly make it one of the largest seller of cars for that time.
Of course, the name of his daughter Mercedes are expected to show the new models of cars like "Mercedes 35 hp". Jellinek's obsessiongrow under the name Mercedes and even has its own name to Jellinek-Mercedes. For eight years, Jellinek was at meetings of the Board of Directors of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft 1901-1909, but he withdrew from all activities related to automobiles because of its diplomatic posts.
In 1924, the two big companies, Benz & Cie. and DMG finally started to work, but because of World War II and the problems with the German economy at the time were able to join two fieldsYears later, in 1926 and used the name Daimler-Benz AG. Of course, the name Mercedes was not lost. It 'started with the production of rails and cars, and they used the name of Mercedes-Benz for her. By Daimler they got the name of Mercedes Benz and the former part of the company Benz & Cie. A clause in the merger agreement the two companies forced to remain together until 2000.
They focused on creating models of land vehicles, as well as engines for boatsand aircraft for civil and military organizations. You might also airships from their engines and soon after died in 1929, Karl Benz drove to make.
Most of the company's efforts were saloons on the creation of models and their glory is now known. However, some models have sports as the first model of SSK developed by Ferdinand Porsche. Another great product is the Mercedes-Benz 300SL. With its gull-wing doors, was an interesting sight.
Of course, Mercedes-Benzcars less expensive for the general public. In Stuttgart they were able to create and test models Volkswagen in collaboration with Porsche. Before the machine is a model called the A-Class came in production. There is a small family car and perhaps for this reason, the popular name of this vehicle is Baby Benz. The first generation of baby-Benz was founded in 1997 and years later re-appeared again in 2004.
