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► CAR HISTORY > ARTICLESDaimler and Benz - founders of automotive industry
Modernisation of the first four-wheel "Benz" (1892) proceeded till 1901. Despite unpretentiousness of a design, such cars it has been exhausted more than 2300 cars. In 1909 the firm has faced difficulties. Despite Benz's will, the group of the French engineers who have designed more perfect car model has been created. It have tried to introduce in manufacture in 1903, but all has come to an end failure that has forced Charles Benz to forget about the ambitions: he has offered the modern four-cylinder engine which is meeting the requirements of the new chassis. After start to manufacture of "hybrid" model of business of the company slowly have gone uphill. Unlike Benz, the Daimler was not torn forward. Showing the big interest to stationary engines, he together with colleague Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) in 1889 has created first functional car "Daimler", having started it in manufacture in 1895. Simultaneously the company widely licensed the engines, thereby laying the foundation for release such unprecedented before models, as French "Panhard" and "Peugeot". A year later (in 1889) there was a racing car power of 24 h.p. which, thanks to the technical novelties put in pawn in it, in particular the four-cylinder engine, than 80,5 km/hour accelerated momentum more. " Daimler-Benz "Was bulky and concealed in itself certain dangers. Subsequently the co-owner of firm, Austrian banker Emil Ellinek, has declared necessity of manufacture of easier on weight and the obedient car in steering. He was engaged in careful studying of the market, and soon was a lot of wishing to have such car. As a result the model widely known nowadays named in honour of his daughter, Mercedes was born. It was published in the end of 1900 and became, according to historians, a prototype of the modern car. The first "Mercedes" (December, 1890) - a prototype of the modern car with the elementary body intending for participation in a car racing. Instead of it the four-seater "walking" body could be installed. The model "Mercedes" has united 35 h.p.: a gear shift, a cellular radiator and ignition from a low voltage magnet - from former models of Daimler - and technical innovations - low located easy stamped frame and a mechanical drive gear of inlet valves (though subsequently it was necessary to refuse this novelty). The combination of these technical decisions has given a life to the car which differed from the predecessors more reliable operation and was unusually obedient to steering. Efficiency of brakes, and reliability of steering of new model has sharply increased has soon entered into a saying. Since then all models "Daimler" began to be called "Меrcedes". |
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Rudolf
Dizel - the few know, who this person. However popularity of his
invention which cannot be overestimated, grows every day. The diesel
engine use both motorists, and railwaymen, and seamen. 
It
is difficult to find an automobile forum in which dispute on the
right and left wheel did not inflame. Division into the right and
left parties of movement has begun even before occurrence of the
first car. 
The
XX-th century beginning is marked in world history by a car industry
birth. The end of 30th years of last century associates, as a rule,
with Germany, Adolf Hitler and the war beginning in Europe.
England
remained behind France and Germany on manufacture of cars. The first
"Daimler", created by Englishmen, has appeared in 1897. It
represented only a model copy "Panhard et Levassor", equipped with
engines "Daimler" which were originally imported from Germany.
While
in Germany Benz worried crisis, and the Daimler, despite of
everything, aspired to perfection of the models, France has accepted
relay race of the technical initiative. The firm "Panhard et
Levassor" which first specialised on release of tape saws and
processing machine tools was the strongest.