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66-646: The enterprise began to produce petrol engines but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek , it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902. After this automobile production expanded to become DMG's main product, and it built several models. Because of the post World War One German economic crisis, in 1926 DMG merged with Benz & Cie. , becoming Daimler-Benz and adopting Mercedes-Benz as its automobile trademark. A further merger occurred in 1998 with Chrysler Corporation to become DaimlerChrysler. The name

132-465: A De Dion-Bouton , a Léon-Bollée Voiturette , both three-wheelers, and a four-seat Benz motorized-coach . Jellinek greatly admired automobile designer Wilhelm Maybach 's work. He promised to buy a shipment of 36 automobiles for 550,000 goldmarks if Maybach could design a great race car for him following his specifications. The prototype was finished in December 1900 and, in 1901 went on to have

198-478: A Sephardi mother, Meriem Azoulay, adopted by the husband of the mother, Moise Goggmann (Gogman), a Jew from Lorraine. In 1874, Jellinek was conscripted for military service in Vienna, but was declared unfit. He resumed his diplomatic career as Austrian vice-consul at Oran , Algeria , and also began trading Algerian tobacco to Europeans, in partnership with Rachel's father. He also worked as an inspector for

264-428: A Phönix -engined four-seat open tourer. In 1900, Gottlieb Daimler died. Later DMG's successful Mercedes models based upon race cars designed by Wilhelm Maybach to the specifications of Emil Jellinek (who wanted a more modern and safer car, following the death of Willhelm Bauer in a Daimler racer) changed the board's outlook in favour of the automobile. Maybach continued as designer for a while, but quit in 1907 and

330-625: A centre of the automobile industry, and other businesses moved in. Untertürkheim was an ideal location to site a large factory as it was close to both the Neckar river and the Stuttgart–Ulm railway . The local Mayor Eduard Fiechtner sold the land (185,000 square meters) at a low price and also arranged for a railroad extension with its own station and energy from the Neckar's hydro-electric plant which had been built in 1900. DMG had planned to open

396-431: A centre of the rapidly growing automobile industry. Daimler ran into financial problems because sales were not high enough and the licences didn't yield significant profit. An agreement was reached with industrialists Max Von Duttenhofer and Wilhelm Lorenz  [ de ] , both of whom were also munitions manufacturers, along with the influential banker Kilian von Steiner , who owned an investment bank, to convert

462-465: A lower center of gravity". A small number would be produced for Jellinek under contract. This was the first true automobile designed by DMG , as opposed to a coach with an engine fitted into it. Blending the technical refinements of Maybach's new 4-cylinder engine, with a new chassis the automobile stunned the motorsport world of 1901. Jellinek had promised to purchase a large number of the race cars, (36 units for 550,000 Goldmark ), if he could also be

528-470: A new carburetor . Following the withdrawal of Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach to their own business to concentrate on cars, the enterprise had been close to a crisis but stabilised itself, selling mobile and stationary engines through a number of retailers around the world, from New York City to Moscow. The first Daimler car, a singularly inelegant model, appeared in 1892, followed in 1895 by a two-cylinder vis á vis and, in 1897, DMG's first front-engined model,

594-686: A reliable enterprise, so Jellinek decided to start selling its cars. In 1898, he wrote to DMG requesting six more cars and to become a DMG main agent and distributor. In 1899, he sold 10 cars and 29 in 1900. Among French car-makers such as Peugeot , Panhard & Levassor and other makers licensed to sell Daimler-engined vehicles in France there was a shortage of cars, and Jellinek benefited by being able to beat other suppliers' lengthy waiting-times. Jellinek kept contacting DMG's designers with his ideas, some were good, but often with harangues, such as "Your manure wagon has just broken down on schedule"; "Your car

660-477: A result even left DMG for a short period. Daimler's friend, Frederick Simms, persuaded the financiers to take Gottflieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach back into faltering DMG in early 1896. Their business was re-merged with DMG 's. Daimler was appointed General Inspector, Maybach chief Technical Director and Simms a director of DMG . In 1892, Maybach designed the Phönix , an inline two-cylinder engine fitted with

726-597: A sanatorium in Bad Kissingen by Dr. Von Dapper, he ceded the Baden mansion to his family, writing: "(The Baden Villa) disturbs me terribly, I cannot sleep and that is detrimental to my health!" When Austria-Hungary entered war on July 28, 1914, Jellinek and his family stopped speaking French outside their property. Later that year, they moved to Meran ( France ) but there, he was accused of espionage for Germany, supposedly hiding saboteurs in his Mediterranean yachts. At

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792-504: A separate identity, merged ownership with that of BSA (munitions), and began producing military vehicles. It also dropped the word motor from its name. For over 65 years, The Daimler Company Limited produced a wide variety of premium quality vehicles including buses, ambulances, fire engines and some trucks but in particular medium-sized and large cars which were often very expensive. Their vehicles were distinguished by their finned exposed radiators, later by scalloped radiator shells. Until

858-473: A small museum with historical items like Daimler-Maybach's first ever motorcycle, the Reitwagen . Later that night a man broke into the factory and stole half the cars. He painted the words "Joe who?" on the side of them. The displaced workers received haven-salaries and additional bread rations. Neighboring businesses lent workshops, allowing production to continue. DMG created a Relief Fund (one of

924-479: A string of racing successes. Its engine was baptized Daimler-Mercedes. In 1899 he married Madelaine Henriette Engler (Anaise Jellinek), and had four more children: Alain Didier, Guy, Rene and Andree (Maya). Seeing an advertisement for a DMG car in the weekly magazine Fliegende Blätter , Jellinek, now aged 43, travelled to Cannstatt , (near Stuttgart ), in 1896, to find out more about the company, its factory, and

990-550: A subsidiary company in Austria Edouard Sarazin began early negotiations to license Gottlieb Daimler's engines in France. After his death, his wife finally succeeded, helped by Émile Levassor and René Panhard (then a timber-machinery manufacturers) selling their first engine in 1887. Armand Peugeot , one of their clients, began fitting vehicles with Panhard & Levassor engines, and acquired Daimler 's licence from them. Peugeot focused, successfully, on

1056-514: A three pointed star, with each point indicating a different way). On 5 July 1887 Daimler purchased a property in Seelberg Hill (Cannstatt) previously owned by Zeitler & Missel who had used it as a precious metal foundry. The site covered 2,903 square meters, cost 30,200 Goldmark , and from it they produced engines for their successful Neckar motorboat. They also sold licences for others to make their engine products and Seelberg became

1122-516: Is the chrysalis and I want the butterfly"; and "Your engineers should be locked up in an insane asylum." This annoyed Daimler, but Maybach took notice of many of his suggestions. Every year in March, the French Riviera celebrated a speed-week, attracting many members of the local high-society. The events included: In 1899. Jellinek entered his cars in all of them. As the usage of pseudonyms

1188-505: The Mercedes series. The great demand for the car soon had DMG operating at full-capacity. In these early years, car races were used as advertising for their makers. Therefore, both DMG and Benz & Cie. , their great rival, put the best of their cars on the track. Daimler cars were able to beat Benz until 1908, when a Benz achieved the land speed record , but in the following years, both brands were equal. DMG expanded with

1254-806: The Jewish communities of Leipzig and Vienna. Jellinek's mother, Rosalie Bettelheim (born 1832 in Budapest , died 1892 in Baden bei Wien ), was an active rebbitzen . He had two brothers, both of whom achieved fame: Max Hermann Jellinek, as a linguist , and Georg Jellinek , as an international law teacher. His sisters were Charlotte and Pauline. The family moved, shortly after Jellinek's birth, to Vienna. He found paying attention to school work difficult and dropped out of several schools, including Sonderhausen. His parents were displeased with his performance, while Jellinek began to indulge in practical jokes. In 1870, when he

1320-587: The Mercedes Simplex of 1902–1909, (the name indicating it being "easy to drive") and the Mercedes Knight of 1910–1924, featuring Coventry Daimler's development of Charles Yale Knight 's sleeve-valve engine . All models were priced by their hp-rating. The first truck, of 1.5 tons payload, was sold to London's British Motor Syndicate Ltd on 1 October 1896. Its rear-mounted Phoenix engine produced 4 hp (3 kW) at 700 rpm. In 1897,

1386-480: The Phoenix engine. It amazed the automobile world with: Production of this engine which was put into cars, trucks, and boats became DMG 's main product until the Mercedes car of 1902. In 1902 an automobile that would later be called the Mercedes 35 hp was created by Maybach to the order of the successful Austrian merchant Emil Jellinek who became fascinated by both the Phoenix engine and race cars. The name

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1452-506: The "Rikers plant" opposite of Rikers Island which is in use for piano production until nowadays. This business was sold after William Steinway died in 1896. In 1890 Hamburg-born Frederick Simms , a consulting engineer and a good personal friend of Gottlieb Daimler returned to the United Kingdom with the Phoenix engine for launches (though expressing thoughts for cars) having obtained from him British (and British Empire) rights to

1518-490: The 60 combined touring and racing capacity, and was the top-status car to own (or for other makers, among them Berliet , Rochet-Schneier , Martini , Ariel , Star and FIAT , to copy; in the U.S., Daimler Manufacturing Company { Long Island City , New York} may have built one under licence in association with Steinway ). In part due to the model 60's success, the number of DMG employees went from 821 (1903) to 2,200 (1904). 1906 to 1913 were further expansion years, with

1584-515: The Daimler patents. In 1893 Simms formed The Daimler Motor Syndicate Limited (DMS) . At the end of 1895 Simms received an offer from a London company promoter called Lawson of, at first, £35,000 to purchase all the Daimler rights. As part of the necessary arrangements, Maybach and Daimler having parted from DMG , Simms arranged to pay the now drifting DMG £17,100 on the condition that DMG took back Gottlieb Daimler. A 'contract of reassociation'

1650-520: The French Aigle insurance company and traveled to Vienna briefly in 1881 at the age of 28 to open one of its branch offices. Returning to Oran, he married Rachel, and their first two sons Adolph and Fernand were born there. Two years later, in 1884, Jellinek joined the insurance company full-time and moved with the family to Baden bei Wien , Austria, where they lived in the house of a wine dealer named Hanni. His first daughter, Mercédès Jellinek,

1716-641: The German market. Panhard & Levassor designed a complete automobile. Levassor mounted an engine (Daimler's) over the front axle, giving better balance and turning. Marketed in October 1891, it featured rear wheel drive by two side chains, pedal clutch, front radiator, and steering by lever. Historians consider that the automobile was "a German invention, while France expanded it commercially" , mainly by publicity from car-racing since in January 1886 Karl Benz

1782-747: The German post-war crisis, DMG merged with Benz to become the Daimler-Benz company with their automobiles called Mercedes-Benz . Daimler-Benz purchased Chrysler in 1998 and became DaimlerChrysler until August 2007, when Chrysler was sold off to Cerberus Capital Management . The company is now known as the Mercedes-Benz Group . In the Mercedes global boom in 1900, Jellinek-Mercedes purchased several properties including: His most important properties were: Paul Daimler Paul Daimler (13 September 1869 – 15 December 1945)

1848-406: The Mercedes era", a sentiment echoed by newspapers worldwide. The records set by the new Mercedes amazed the entire automobile world. DMG's sales shot up, filling its Stuttgart plant to full capacity and consolidating its future as a car making company. The number of employees steadily increased from 340 in 1900 to 2,200 in 1904. In 1902, on June 23, the company decided to use the Mercedes name as

1914-466: The Sultan of Morocco. Commercial vehicles had also been made mainly using a Phoenix engine, but up to 1900, when Daimler died, the bodies had not been standardised. In 1902, the Mercedes car was built, compact and modern, with many improved features, a move which sparked the board's interest in automobile production. Mercedes then became DMG's main car brand name. There were some small exceptions:

1980-530: The company Mercedes-Benz , and the marque became one of the largest car brands in the world. Jellinek lived in Vienna , Austria , then later moved to Nice , on the French Riviera , where he was General Consul of Austria-Hungary . Jellinek was born in Leipzig , Germany , the son of Adolf Jellinek (sometimes known as Aaron Jellinek). His father was a well-known Czech - Hungarian rabbi and intellectual in

2046-533: The creation of new capacity reducing the number of external suppliers. Increased mechanization took the annual productivity from 0.7 cars per worker, to 10. In 1911, shares of DMG were listed on the Stuttgart stock exchange . On 2 October 1902 DMG opened a new works in the mountainous region to the south of Berlin. Its scope was initially limited to motorboat and marine engines. Later, it expanded into making trucks (1905) and fire trucks (1907). The region became

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2112-677: The current owners of Jaguar and Daimler, announced they were considering transforming Daimler into "a super-luxury marque to compete directly with Bentley and Rolls-Royce". An application to register the Daimler name by Jaguar as a trademark in the US was rejected in 2009. Daimler built the engine for the first airship fuelled by petrol in 1888. From 1899 to 1907 DMG provided Maybach designed engines to Zeppelin . Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1909. After 1909 Maybach and his son Karl founded their own enterprise in Württemberg and took over supplying

2178-537: The designers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. He placed an order for one of the Daimler cars and took delivery in October of that year. The car, a Phoenix Double-Phaeton with 8 hp engine, could reach 24 km/h (15 mph). Maybach had designed the DMG-Phoenix engine, which featured four cylinders for the first time in a car, in 1894, when staying at Stuttgart's former Hermann Hotel. DMG seemed

2244-588: The early 1950s it was often said "the aristocracy buy Daimlers, the nouveau riche buy Rolls-Royce". In 1960 the business was sold to Jaguar , which soon engaged in badge-engineering and often Jaguar and Daimler cars could only be distinguished by the grille and name badge. In 2005 the only Daimler models being produced were luxury models, such as the Daimler Super Eight . The Daimler name moved with Jaguar into British Leyland , back to an independent Jaguar, and then into Ford. In July 2008 Tata Group,

2310-521: The engines. Emil Jellinek Emil Jellinek , known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 – 21 January 1918), was an automobile entrepreneur of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG), responsible in 1900 for commissioning the first modern automobile, the Mercedes 35hp . Jellinek created the Mercedes trademark in 1902, naming it in honor of his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek . The trademark developed into

2376-465: The facility in 1905 but the total destruction of Cannstatt's factory by fire in 1903 hastened the work and the new Art-Nouveau building, with a jagged-roof , was brought forward to start production in December 1903. The work force continued to grow. On 17 May 1904 Unterturkheim became DMG 's headquarters with the rest of the administration staff moving in on 29 May. In 1913, an additional 220,000 square meters were acquired and between 1915 and 1918 it

2442-611: The first one on December 22, 1900, at Nice's railway station – it had already been sold to the Baron Henri de Rothschild who had also raced cars in Nice. In 1901, the car amazed the automobile world. Jellinek again won the Nice races, easily beating his opponents in all the capacity classes and reaching 60 km/h (37 mph). The director of the French Automobile Club , Paul Meyan , stated: "We have entered

2508-649: The first worker insurance schemes) and began building separator blocks in all its plants. The following year, 1904, the whole operation moved to Untertürkheim. The last unit produced in Seelberg rolled out in the first weeks of 1905. At the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, there was a rush to produce war supplies. In the autumn of 1915, DMG opened the Sindelfingen factory for military vehicles , aircraft engines, and even entire aircraft . After

2574-595: The ill-designed "horseless carriages" of the time which made them unsuitable for high speeds and at risk of overturning: The model would be officially called the Daimler-Mercedes which the DMG chairman accepted readily as it overcame the problem of the Daimler name in France being owned by Panhard & Levassor. Over the next few months, Jellinek oversaw the development of the new car at first by daily telegrams and later by traveling to Stuttgart. He took delivery of

2640-495: The large sum of 550,000 Goldmark if Wilhelm Maybach would design a revolutionary sports car for him, to be called the Mercedes great right, of which 36 units had to be delivered before October 15. The deal also included an order for 36 standard DMG 8 hp cars. Jellinek also became a member of DMG's Board of Management and obtained the exclusive dealership for the new Mercedes for France, Austria, Hungary, Belgium and United States of America. Jellinek had some legal problems over

2706-612: The possibility of using the Phoenix for sporting events as at that time car racing was the best way of generating publicity in Europe. On March 30, 1900, Wilhelm Bauer decided spontaneously to enter the Nice-La Turbie hill climb but crashed fatally after hitting a rock on the first turn while avoiding spectators. This caused DMG to abandon racing. Nonetheless, Jellinek came to an agreement with DMG on April 2, 1900, by promising

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2772-552: The private business to a public corporation in 1890. (This agreement is regarded by some historians as a "devil's pact", as the inventors never got along with the new status.) Not really believing in automobile production the financiers expanded the stationary engine business, as they were selling well, and even considered a merger with Otto's Deutz-AG . (During 1882, Gottflieb Daimler had serious personal problems with Nicholas Otto, when Daimler and Maybach worked for Otto.) Daimler and Maybach continued to advocate car manufacturing and as

2838-476: The production of light commercial vehicles began. At that time they were popularly called business vehicles , and were very successful in the United Kingdom. At the first Paris Motor Show , in 1898, a 5-ton truck was displayed, with a front-mounted engine. In 1894, while working from temporary premises in the unused Hermann Hotel in Cannstatt, Gottlieb Daimler, his son Paul, and Wilhelm Maybach designed

2904-412: The same stationary engine technology. DMG thus grew out of an extension of the independent businesses of Daimler and Maybach, who would revolutionize the world with their inventions for the automobile of a four-stroke petrol engine , carburetor , and so on. They would manufacture small internal combustion engines suitable for use on land, sea, and in the air (the basis for a symbol Daimler devised of

2970-533: The same time, the Austrians suspected his wife, Anaise. Fleeing in 1917, they ended up in Geneva , in neutral Switzerland, where Emil Jellinek was temporarily arrested again. He stayed there until his death on January 21, 1918, at the age of 64. All his French properties were later forfeited. Since 1982, his remains have rested near Rachel's tomb, in Nice's Catholic Cemetery. A decade after his death, in 1926, amid

3036-463: The sole French agency and adopted the alias of "C. L. Charley". Jellinek acquired a large mansion which he named Villa Mercedes to run the business from and by 1897 he was selling about 140 cars a year and started calling them "Mercedes". The car business was by now more profitable than his insurance work. It was in Nice that Jellinek became enthralled by the automobile, studying any information that he could gather about it and purchasing successively:

3102-524: The sole concessionaire in Austria-Hungary, France, Belgium, and the US, using the name Daimler-Mercedes for the engine, and also become a member of the Board of Management. In June 1902, after DMG realized that they had already conceded their Daimler trademark to Panhard & Levassor for the whole of France, they decided to name all their cars Mercedes after the engine and began to produce

3168-711: The trademark for its entire automobile production and officially registered it on September 26. As well as shaving off his side-whiskers, the overjoyed Emil Jellinek, in Vienna in June 1903 at the age of 50, changed his name to Jellinek-Mercedes , commenting: "This is probably the first time that a father has taken his daughter's name". From then on, he signed himself E.J. Mercédès . Jellinek and his enthusiastic associates were distributing DMG-Mercedes models worldwide, six hundred were sold by 1909, making millions for DMG. He supplied cars to all 150 members of Nice's Automobile Club and also supported racing teams all over Europe. His life

3234-409: The use of the Daimler name in France with Panhard Levassor who owned the Daimler licences for France, and the use of the Mercedes name put an end to that problem. Apparently Jellinek laid down a strict specification for the Mercedes stating "I don't want a car for today or tomorrow, it will be the car of the day after tomorrow". He itemized many new parameters to overcome the problems found in many of

3300-484: The war, limited by the Versailles Treaty , it produced only automobile bodies. The production of motorboats by Daimler and Maybach began early, in 1886, with the Neckar (4.5 meters long with a speed of 11 km/h (6 knots)), the first in the world, and tested on the local Neckar river. That boat became DMG's first commercial hit, helped by the poor state of Germany's roads. Once the public corporation

3366-620: The winters in Nice on the fashionable French Riviera , eventually moving there and establishing links with both international business people and the local aristocracy. Helped by his diplomatic career, he became the Austrian Consul General in Nice, and began selling automobiles, mainly French makes, to European aristocrats spending winter vacations in the region. Associated with the automobile business were Leon Desjoyeaux , from Nice, and Alsatian cyclist Karl Lehmann, who acquired

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3432-695: Was 17, his parents found him a job as a clerk in a Moravian railway company, Rot-Koestelec North-Western. Jellinek worked two years before being fired by management, upon discovery that he had been organising train races late at night. In 1872, when 19 years old, he moved to France . There, through his father's connections, Schmidl, the Austro-Hungarian Consul in Morocco , requested his services, getting Jellinek diplomatic posts at Tangier and Tetouan , successively. In Tetouan, he met Rachel Goggmann , an Algerian-born illegitimate daughter of

3498-546: Was Austro-Hungarian Consulate General in successively Nice (1907), Mexico and Monaco. In 1909 when in Monte Carlo, Jellinek finally severed his commercial activities to concentrate on his consular work but did purchase some casinos in the region. Just before war broke out in 1914 the Austrian government charged Jellinek for taxes on his French properties. The family then moved to Semmering, Austria . While being treated at

3564-610: Was a German mechanical engineer who designed automobiles . He was the eldest child of Gottlieb Daimler who founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and (with Wilhelm Maybach ) invented the petrol engine . After studying at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart , he worked in his father's factory in Cannstatt . On 10 November 1885 he travelled with his father in the "riding car"—the world's first motorcycle—from Cannstatt to Untertürkheim . In 1902, Paul

3630-621: Was absorbed by the business, spending much time away from home, and sending many telegrams. As the 1900s continued, his passion for the Mercedes began to fade. He tired of the special requests being made by his highly demanding aristocratic customers. He also became disillusioned by DMG's technical department which he called "those donkeys" and built his own large repair facilities at Nice behind Villa Mercedes . Wilhelm Maybach, his favorite designer, left DMG in 1907. He also so angered DMG's chairman that in 1908 he permanently cancelled Jellinek's original contract. His diplomatic career continued and he

3696-524: Was born in Baden on September 16, 1889; the name Mercédès means "favor", "kindness", "mercy", or "pardon" in Spanish. Rachel died four years later, and was buried in Nice . Even so, Jellinek came to believe the name Mercedes brought good fortune and called all his properties after it. One of his sons wrote: He was as superstitious as the ancient Romans. Jellinek's insurance business and stock-market trading became very successful, and they started to spend

3762-423: Was changed again to just Daimler AG in 2007 when Chrysler was sold. Most recently in 2022, the name was changed once more to the Mercedes-Benz Group . By 1882 both Daimler and Maybach had left Nikolaus Otto 's Deutz AG Gasmotorenfabrik . In 1890 they founded their own engine business, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ( DMG ). Its purpose was the construction of small, high speed engines they had developed based on

3828-505: Was common, he called his race-team Mercedes and this was visibly written on the cars' chassis. Monsieur Mercedes became his personal alias and he became well known by it in the region. Using the DMG-Phoenix, Jellinek easily won all the races, reaching 35 km/h (22 mph), but he was still not satisfied with the car. In 1899 DMG commissioned some engineers including Wilhelm Bauer, Wilhelm Werner and Hermann Braun, to investigate

3894-435: Was derived from an engine Maybach built to the specifications of Jellinek in 1900 that could achieve 35 hp (26 kW). Jellinek had stipulated that the engine be called Daimler-Mercedes and when it was successful, he stipulated a new model in an edition of vehicles that he would market and use personally. Later this was referred to as the Mercedes 35 hp (26 kW) model. It was never marketed by DMG until its success

3960-449: Was extended further. By the 1920s, Untertürkheim had almost all the production processes on one site from foundries to final car assembly. In 1925 the DMG design department also moved in. On the night of 10 June 1903 the original Seelberg-Cannstatt plant suffered a great fire. All the machinery and 93 finished Mercedes cars, a quarter of the annual production, were destroyed, together with

4026-765: Was formed, motorboat production became one of the new financiers' main interests and lead in 1902 to the building of the Berlin-Marienfelde factory specifically for their manufacture. Daimler had sold automobile-engine licences all over the world including to France, Austria, the UK, and the United States through an agreement with the piano-maker Steinway , in New York. The first DMG automobile sale took place in August 1892 (its registration still survives) to

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4092-597: Was granted the first patent for an automobile he designed and built in 1885. In 1888, Gottlieb Daimler established a cooperation with the German-born piano maker William Steinway in Astoria, Queens, later New York City, to build stationary and marine engines for gas and petroleum, and later on, in 1892, also to build cars as full copies of the German design. The engines and cars were produced in Steinway's premises of

4158-520: Was replaced by Gottlieb's son, Paul . DMG 's automobile sales took off, particularly with the first Daimler-Mercedes engine designed by Maybach placed into several race cars of 1900 built for Emil Jellinek. That race car was later referred to as the Mercedes 35 hp . Production capacity was extended to Untertürkheim. In 1902, DMG produce the first Mercedes models, led by the 60 , the most famous early model, and officially adopted Mercedes as its automobile trademark; capable of 120 km/h (75 mph),

4224-412: Was seen to be substantial. Jellinek competed as a driver, painting "Mercedes" (Spanish for godsend ), on the automobiles he raced after his 10-year-old daughter. Jellinek's pursuit of higher speed brought him to Stuttgart personally, to Wilhelm Maybach 's office where he also met with Paul Daimler , son of Gottlieb. Together they designed a new kind of automobile that would be "larger, wider, and with

4290-482: Was sent to the general partners of Austro-Daimler , where he became the technical director. In 1903, he designed an armoured car. From 1907 to 1922 he was Technical Director of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft Untertürkheim, Sindelfingen and Berlin-Marienfelde . On 1 July 1923, he joined Horch , part of Argus Motoren Gesellschaft and made a name for himself there as a developer in the department of motor aircraft engines, remaining until 1928. Examples of his work include

4356-605: Was signed on 1 November 1895. The result was the divided Daimler-Maybach and DMG businesses then merged and were rejuvenated. In early 1896, having agreed with Daimler Motor Syndicate it would buy the Daimler rights, Lawson floated The Daimler Motor Company Limited (DMC) in London (with Gottlieb Daimler a director), the works to be in a disused cotton mill in Coventry . Simms became a director of DMG (Cannstatt) but not DMC (London). In 1910 Daimler Motor Company while retaining

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