1902

  • 1 March 1902
  • The first 40 hp Mercedes-Simplex, a further development of the 35 hp Mercedes, is dispatched to Emil Jellinek. It is followed five days later by a further three cars, also intended for entry in the Nice Race Week taking place in April. In addition to the first 40 hp car, Jellinek also takes delivery of a trial model of the 28 hp Mercedes-Simplex.
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  • 7 April 1902
  • E. T. Stead wins the Nice - La Turbie hillclimb in a new course record at the wheel of a 40 hp Mercedes-Simplex. In the one-mile race on April 13, the Mercedes-Simplex cars of Degrais, Werner and Lemaître complete a clean sweep of the top three places.
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  • 7 May 1902
  • Ferdinand Porsche wins the car category at the Exelberg race (held near Vienna). The winning car is based on the 28 hp Mercedes-Simplex and uses a petrol engine to power electric motors in the front wheel hubs via a generator. Porsche himself developed this Lohner-Porsche drive system while working at Jacob Lohner & Co. in Vienna. Vehicles of this type are sold under the designation Mercédès-Mixte from 1906.
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  • 27 May 1902
  • Delivery of the first 20 hp Mercedes-Simplex signals the arrival of the third Mercedes model in the 1902 range. The Mercedes-Simplex family now comprises models with outputs of 20, 28 and 40 hp (15, 21 and 29 kW).
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  • 27 June 1902
  • Österreichische Daimler-Motoren-Commanditgesellschaft Bierenz, Fischer & Co., Wiener Neustadt, is taken over by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and run as a subsidiary. Paul Daimler takes the reins as chief engineer.
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  • 7 September 1902
  • The fourth Semmering Race again ends in triumph for Mercedes: Wilhelm Werner in a 40 hp Mercedes-Simplex sets a new course record and wins the Challenge Trophy for Clarence Gray Dinsmore.
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  • 3 October 1902
  • Benz & Cie. unveils the 10/12 hp Parsifal at the Motor Show in Hamburg. The vehicle is fitted with a front-mounted two-cylinder engine and propshaft drive, signalling the death knell for rear-mounted engines and belt drive. It is presented to an international audience at the Paris Motor Show in December.
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  • 27 November 1902
  • G. F. Milnes & Co., Ltd., London, in which Motorfahrzeug- und Motorenfabrik Berlin AG has an 80 % holding, is renamed Milnes-Daimler Ltd. following the merger of MMB and DMG and acquires sole distribution rights for DMG for the whole of the British Empire.
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