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25 - 29 March 1901
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At Nice Week works driver Wilhelm Werner pilots his 35 hp Mercedes to victory in the 392-km Nice - Salon - Nice race. Werner also wins the Nice - La Turbie hillclimb at an average speed of 51.4 km/h. The hugely impressive performances of the new car prompt Paul Meyan, Secretary General of the Automobile Club of France, to state: "Nous sommes entrés dans l’ère Mercédès" ('We have entered the Mercedes era').
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27 September 1901
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The Austrian Wilhelm Kress begins flight testing in his seaplane, the first aircraft equipped with an internal combustion engine – a 35 hp / 26 kW Mercedes four-cylinder unit. However, the trials are unsuccessful and are brought to a halt on 3 October, when the plane capsizes and is destroyed.
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