| On 8 March 1886 Gottlieb Daimler ordered a carriage in the version "Americaine" from the Wagenbaufabrik Wilhelm Wimpff & Sohn, ostensibly as a present for his wife Emma`s forthcoming birthday but actually to install an engine into it. A vertical one-cylinder was mounted designed according to the model of the "Standuhr" ("grandfather-clock").
Daimler's motor-vehicle was the first four-wheel vehicle driven by a fast-running combustion-engine. Contrary to the Benz-patent motor-car, representing an own integral construction, Daimler's first automobile was only a carriage without shaft with the common fifth-wheel-steering - a carriage without horses so-to-speak.
For the time being Daimler did not think of an evolution model or even the series-production of his motor-vehicle. With the motor-carriage he once again had demonstrated the possible ways of using his engine and carried on looking for alternatives. |
