Benz Patent-Motorwagen
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Benz Patent-Motorwagen is used today to refer to the first cars produced by Benz & Cie between 1885 and 1893; these had three wheels, a single-cylinder four-stroke engine and belt-drive. Benz & Cie us
Benz Patent Motorwagen Evolution 1885 2022
Carl and Bertha Benz driving around Munich in their Model 2 Patent-Motorwagen, September 1888
Side views from patent DRP37435 and 3D model of the 1895 rebuild in Deutsches Museum
Side view from patent DRP37435 overlaid by parts from 3D model of the 1895 rebuild in Deutsches Museum
Benz Viktoria
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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Viktoria is the name by which 4-wheeled cars produced by Benz & Cie. from 1892 to 1900 came to be known because they were modelled on a Victoria horse-drawn carriage. Severa
Benz Patent-Motorwagen
…Benz & Cie used the designation "Patent-Motorwagen" for their four-wheel cars until c.1900, but these are known today by their other names, such as Viktoria and Velo. All these cars used the same layout and belt-drive technology for which Benz received patent number DRP37435 in 1886, hence the designation…
Benz Viktoria
Victoria carriage c.1900
Benz Victoria in National Technical Museum in Prague
Karl and Bertha Benz, their daughter Clara and Fritz Held on a Benz Victoria during a trip near Schriesheim in 1894