Wilhelm Maybach

  • Daimler 35 hp Mercedes (1901)

    Daimler 35 hp Mercedes (1901)

    The Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, who was known as Monsieur Mercedes, was virtually addicted to technical progress of the newly invented car. In March 1900, he entered two Daimler Phoenix racing cars in the Nice race week under the name Mercedes, the name of his daughter, who was ten at the time. In April 1900,…

  • Wilhelm Maybach’s 35 hp engine (1900)

    Wilhelm Maybach’s 35 hp engine (1900)

    Mercedes engine designed by Wilhelm MaybachIn 1900, Wilhelm Maybach designed a completely new engine for the new Daimler 35 hp Mercedes model. With a bore/stroke ratio of 116 x 140 mm, the engine had a total displacement of 5918cc and output of around 35 hp. The horizontally divided crankcase was for the first time made…

  • Gottlieb Daimler’s grandfather clock

    Gottlieb Daimler’s grandfather clock

    The four-stroke engine developed by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, nicknamed Grandfather ClockThe drive system is today the key to the modern automobile – just as it was in the pioneering days of motorisation. For this reason the engine with a single vertical cylinder – patented by Gottlieb Daimler on 3 April 1885 (German Patent…