Daimler Stahlradwagen

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Stahlradwagen ("steel-wheeled car")
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Daimler Stahlradwagen, 1889
Overview
Manufacturer Gottlieb Daimler
Production1889
AssemblyCanstatt, Germany
Designer Wilhelm Maybach
Body and chassis
Layout MR layout [1]
Powertrain
Engine IOE 16° V-twin engine, 565 cc [2] [3]
Transmission 4-speed manual [1] [4]

The Stahlradwagen (or "steel-wheeled car") [5] was Gottlieb Daimler's second motor car. [1]

After seeing Panhard's Daimler-designed V-twin engine demonstrated at the Paris Exposition of 1889 and inquiring into the engine's weight and power, Armand Peugeot expressed his interest in a lightweight motor vehicle powered by the engine. Daimler worked with Wilhelm Maybach to develop the vehicle. [6] The tubular steel frame resembled two bicycles joined side by side and was made by bicycle manufacturer Neckarsulmer Stahlfabriken, which would later become part of NSU Motorenwerke. [1] [6] Water, to cool the engine, was run through the tubular frame. [7]

The Stahlradwagen was demonstrated toward the end of the 1889 Exposition. [4] [8] Peugeot began building cars based on the Stahlradwagen design by 1890. [3] [7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Posthumus 1977, p. 13.
  2. Dick 2005, pp. 13–14.
  3. 1 2 Eckermann 2001, p. 33.
  4. 1 2 Dick 2005, p. 16.
  5. Luikens & Hedberg 2008, p. 9.
  6. 1 2 Dick 2005, pp. 15–16.
  7. 1 2 Posthumus 1977, p. 16.
  8. Posthumus 1977, p. 14.

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