1894| BENZ VELO
1 Cylinder
Bore : 110 mm
Stroke: 110 mm
Displacement: 1045 cc
Output at 450 rpm: 1.1 kW (1.5 hp)
1.2 Top speed: 21 km/h
The Benz Velo, built
between 1894 and 1899, was the first volume-production motor
vehicle. At least 381 units are known to have been built
between 1894 and 1897. A Velo with demountable half roof was
priced at 2200 gold marks.
January 1894:
Benz Patent Motor Car "Velo" (Velocipede), the world's first large-scale
production car
The Benz Patent Motor Car "Velo" (Velocipede) was the world's first
large-scale production car – and the first small car. Benz produced more than
1,200 units between 1894 and 1902. It fulfilled the demands of its designer in
that it was light, robust, fast and, at a price of 2,000 marks, inexpensive.
Its top speed was 20 km/h. Benz designed an engine with a displacement of
1,045 cc and an output of initially 1.5 hp for the Velo. The car had
wire-spoke wheels and the patented double-pivot steering. In 1896, the more
comprehensively equipped Velo Comfortable was launched with a 2.75 hp engine,
followed by a three horsepower version in 1900. In 1901 engine output was
raised to 3.5 hp.
1895 Benz Velo at the Toyota Automobile Museum
Post Card of 1894 Benz Velo on eBay
Post Card
1895 Benz Velo
Benz-Patent-Motor-Wagen
Veloziped named "Velo".
Below: look at the engine.
The castle
museum possesses one of the first autos in series produced in
Germany, a Benz "Velo" in his(its) collection. This type was produced
between 1893 and 1900 with Benz and Cie in Mannheim. Our patent engine
vehicle Benz comes from the year 1895 and carries the factory number 2274.
He(it) has a maximum speed of 25 km/h and is driven by a lying fourth
act-single-cylinder engine which is still got original. A Benz-Velo had in
1895 a price of 2.000 marks what did him for most people(persons) of the
that time exorbitantly.
The first owner of the car was the doctor Dr.
Scherenberg who used the Benz for house visits. Later he(it) sold the
vehicle to the farmer Gerhard Julius Leiner.
This is a photograph of a Benz
Velo automobile he took in Yorkshire in 1896 .
Benz Velo (unknown passengers): (Photo:
William Whitehead 1896)
It must have been a rare sight in the
North of England because I believe Benz produced only 62 Velos that year.
1894 Benz Velo – 1.5 Horsepower
Engine 1Cylinder 1.5 h-p 750 rpm
Registration No BE 157
This
car is in extremely original condition and has been in the Black
collection for over 30 years. It is now resident in the Skopos Motor
Museum in Batley, West Yorkshire.
1898. The name Mercedes. In 1898,
Emil Jellinek, who bought and sold Daimler products, took part in the Nice-Magagnon-Nice
rally under the pseudonym Mercedes, his daughter's name. He won the race in
a Daimler.
MSI's 1896 Benz Velo
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