1900

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  • 26 - 30 March 1900
  • Several newly designed 23 hp Daimler Phoenix racing cars take part in Nice Week. Emil Jellinek enters two cars registered, as in the previous year, under his pseudonym "Mercédès”. During the Nice - La Turbie hillclimb, works driver Wilhelm Bauer is killed in a collision with a perimeter wall at the wheel of Mercédès II. Co-driver Hermann Braun, who had already survived an earlier roll in Mercédès I in the Nice – Marseilles race, escapes unhurt once again. The tragic accident causes Jellinek to call for the design of a lighter vehicle with a longer wheelbase and lower centre of gravity.
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  • 2 April 1900
  • Emil Jellinek and DMG reach an agreement in Nice on the sale of Daimler automobiles and engines, setting out retail prices and sales terms. The two parties also reach a decision that "a new engine should be developed which bears the Daimler-Mercedes name”. This marks the first use of Jellinek’s pseudonym "Mercédès”, the name of his daughter from his first marriage, as a brand name. Later that month, Jellinek orders 36 vehicles at a total price of 550,000 Marks from DMG in Cannstatt.
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  • 14 August 1900
  • A contract is signed with the municipality of Untertürkheim for Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft to purchase a 185,000 sq m site on which to build a new plant.
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  • 20 September 1900
  • A patent is filed for the so-called honeycomb radiator as "cooling and condensation device based on the cross-flow principle". This new type of radiator with its high cooling capacity, protected by patent no. DRP 122 766 on 8 August 1901, is based on the tubular radiator developed by Wilhelm Maybach in 1897 and meets an important requirement for higher outputs in vehicle engine design.
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  • 30 October 1900
  • Paul Daimler, the company founder’s eldest son, completes design work on his small car with horizontally mounted 8 hp / 6 kW two-cylinder engine. The first model is completed in October 1901. However, the "Paul Daimler Car" does not achiee market success and is built in small numbers only.
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  • 22 November 1900
  • The finishing touches are added to the first 35 hp Mercedes in Cannstatt, with the new car finally delivered to Emil Jellinek in Nice on 22 December, after completion of extensive testing and a series of revisions.
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  • 1900
  • A workers' relief fund is set up at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft to provide support for company employees and their families primarily in the event of illness.
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