Benz Gallery

Benz Motor Car of 1888

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888 - probably the first petrol car brought into England. A three-wheeled vehicle with a horizontal single cylinder motor. This vehicle was used by Bertha Benz for the first long distance journey by automobile (more than 106 km or sixty miles). Without her husband's prior knowledge, she drove 106km to visit her Mother, stopping at Pharmacies en route for fuel and in turn inventing brake pad lining to solve the tricky situation of braking on hills!! Date: 1888

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

HITLER/PRESENTS MERCEDES

Hitler, wearing a civilian suit, talking to the men of the Mountain Watch (Mountain Rescue Service) as he presents them with their new four wheeled drive Mercedes Benz Date: 25 June 1938

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Benz 3 1/2 HP

Slide showing a photograph from 1897 of a Benz 3 1/2 horse power car with a man, woman and child riding it. The car is possibly a Velo first introduced in 1894, designed by German Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 April 4, 1929). Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

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