Benz replica 1885
德语原文标注:专利 “燃气发动机驱动车辆”(奔驰 1 号专利汽车),1886 年 1 月 29 日提交,1886 年 11 月 2 日由德意志帝国专利局授予第 37435 号专利。
Benz had created his first stationary engine in 1880. A troubled few years followed which would see him enter a business partnership with Emil Buhler in 1881 before forming the new company Gasmotoren-fabrik, Mannheim in October 1882. A year later, after falling out with board members, Benz created Benz & Cie, Rhieinische Gasmotoren-fabrik, supported by his wife Bertha and financed by businessmen Max Rose and Friedrich Esslinger. Sales of Benz stationary engines went well, affording Karl Benz the time to develop his ideas for a lightweight engine with which to power horseless carriages. Development of the Motorwagen progressed through 1885 leading to his successful patent application of January 1886. Further developments took place in the following years leading to production versions and the appointment of Emile Roger of Paris as the first Benz sales agent in 1889.
While Benz was toiling with the first Motorwagen in Mannheim, sixty miles away in Bad Canstatt two former employees of the Deutz Gasmotoren-fabrik, Gottleib Daimler and Willhelm Maybach, were developing the Daimler Motorwagen, a four-wheeled vehicle for which a patent would be granted seven months after Benz’s in August 1886.
Thus began the story of the modern motor car and the genesis of two giants of the motor industry that would later amalgamate to form the mighty Daimler-Benz company in 1926.














