1902 Mercedes Simplex 28 HP

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Tourer   This is the oldest road-going automobile in the world to bear the Mercedes name. This Mercedes Simplex 28 HP Tourer is the model that immediately followed the first 'real' automobile as it is known today, the 35 HP Mercedes designed by Wilhelm Maybach. Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek was passionate about technical progress and the newly invented motorcar. In March of 1900, under the pseudonym of Monsieur 'Mercedes,' the name of his daughter, and with the support of the Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) he entered two Daimler 'Phoenix' racing cars with 28 HP engines in Nice race week. He soon ordered a whole series of cars to be designed by Maybach at DMG with the 28 HP engine and these he called Mercedes-Simplex due to their simple, yet beautifully designed engineering. One of the features of the Maybach design was the new honeycomb radiator that continues to this day.

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Event	Group
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance	Antique through 1915

 

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