A picture of the original "Mercedes"

[grober]

here a picture of the original "Mercedes" for all you history buffs out there.

Courtesy of this press release. http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Feb07/...es_Benz_Brand_And_The_Three_Pointed_Star.html

 

[mark.t]

his daughter ....carl benz i think....a german car with a spanish name

 

[ADY1983]

Yep Mercedes named after his daughter, the story of Mercedes-Benz is on the Brooklands site...

 

[wallingd]

What a pwitty grrl.

 

[shadowninja]

Thank god she wasn't called Chardonnay. How chavs would have killed the brand.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Presumably she was well-built and reliable..........

 

[BlackC55]

Do you reckon she gets better with age?

 

[KillerHERTZ]

She didnt do very well at school, Her German was a little rusty...




I'll get me coat.

 

[Howard]

 

[LastMinute]

Not Karl Benz's daughter, but Emil Jellinek's - and the association was with Daimler, not Benz. Jellinek, a businessman from Vienna, bought several cars from Daimler in the late 19th century and drove a Daimler Phoenix in the Tour de Nice under the pseudonym Mercedes. When he later ordered 36 cars from Daimler to sell in Austria-Hungary, France and America he insisted that they be named after his daughter.

Source: Daimler-Benz Museum book, 1987.

 

[Fandango]

I knew that..

 

[mark.t]

it was the other one .....