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\"\"<\/a>It was on 29 January 1886 that Carl Benz filed an application in Berlin for a patent on his three-wheeled motor car. Ever since, that day has been considered the official birthday of the motor car, which, in 2011, celebrates its 125th anniversary. At the same time as Benz, Gottlieb Daimler was developing the first four-wheeled motor car. In this way, working independently of each other, the founding fathers of today’s Daimler AG and its Mercedes-Benz core brand laid the foundation stone for all present-day passenger cars, commercial vehicles and buses.<\/p>\n

Daimler Riding Car<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In November 1885 the Daimler riding car made its first journey of real length in public, when Gottlieb Daimler\u2019s son Adolf completed the three-kilometre route from Cannstatt to Untert\u00fcrkheim. What seems no further than a stone\u2019s throw today was at the time a giant step. For the riding car was the first vehicle to be equipped with a high-speed internal combustion engine and thus a direct antecedent of the automobile.
\nA year later Daimler built his first four-wheeled motor vehicle. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz would later become known as the inventors of the automobile. Carl Benz was awarded the German Patent No. DRP 37435 for his Patent Motor Car on 19 January 1886, a document considered as the birth certificate of the car.
\nIn the sum of its features, the riding car was the most important precursor to individual mobility, thereafter rendered possible by the advent of the automobile. It was proof on wheels that the internal combustion engine was capable of powering a road-going vehicle \u2013 and that a human being could fully control it. Indeed, in the case of the riding car, by sitting astride the engine the driver was seen to take complete control of the machine with the objective of locomotion, using just a few levers to set the vehicle in motion. The riding car therefore gave to the world an important and lasting signal of what was achievable.
\n\"\"<\/a>The compactness of the riding car also sent out another important signal, for it used the smallest and most powerful combustion engine that could be fitted to a two-wheeled vehicle \u2013 it would have been impossible at the time to build a smaller vehicle than the riding car equipped with combustion engine.
\nThe most important prerequisite for the riding car, simultaneously the world\u2019s first motorcycle, was Gottlieb Daimler\u2019s four-stroke, single-cylinder engine, which he registered for patent on 3 April 1885. This was a milestone in the history of technology, since the unit was small and powerful compared with other combustion engines of the day used for stationary operation. Daimler\u2019s priority, on the other hand, was the engine\u2019s mobile application. He applied for a patent for his riding car with \u201cgas or petroleum engine,\u201d as it was described in the patent specification, on 29 August 1885 (German Patent No. DRP 36423 was awarded on 11 August 1886).
\nThe riding car was proof on wheels that the internal combustion engine was capable of powering a human-controlled road vehicle. Moreover, it provided an impressive demonstration of the size and power of the Daimler engine. For the riding car was a highly compact vehicle, and therefore sent out an important message about the large and unwieldy stationary internal combustion engines of the day.
\n[Source: Daimler AG]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was on 29 January 1886 that Carl Benz filed an application in Berlin for a patent on his three-wheeled motor car. Ever since, that day has been considered the official birthday of the motor car, which, in 2011, celebrates its 125th anniversary. At the same time as Benz, Gottlieb Daimler was developing the first four-wheeled motor car. 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