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13 June - 3 July 1898
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At the Motor Show in Paris, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach present a new truck model for 5-tonne payloads. The four-stroke engine is longitudinally mounted under a bonnet at the front end of the vehicle and power is transferred to the rear wheels via a geared manual transmission with propshaft and pinions.
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21 - 25 July 1898
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A Daimler belt-driven car fitted with Bosch low-voltage magneto ignition undertakes a five-day test drive through the Austrian Alps. The electric ignition is subsequently built into several DMG trucks. The experience gained through these developments soon clears the way for replacement of the hot-tube ignition system hitherto characteristic of Daimler engine construction.
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2 October 1898
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A Daimler motor omnibus with seating for ten passengers and powered by a 10 hp / 7.4 kW, two-cylinder engine, goes into service between Künzelsau and Mergentheim (Württemberg). The private omnibus service is also commissioned to deliver post along its 30-km route. Thus it becomes the first motorised postal service in Germany, although the service is suspended in July 1899.
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3 November 1898
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At Marienfelde, near Berlin, an engineering company founded by Adolf Altmann in 1879 is converted into a public company operating under the name Motorfahrzeug- und Motorenfabrik Berlin AG (MMB). It manufactures passenger cars, omnibuses and commercial vehicles under licence from Daimler. MMB merges with Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1902 and becomes its Berlin-Marienfelde branch.
