1928

  • May 1928
  • The first units of the Mercedes-Benz OE diesel tractor are delivered to their owners. The model is designed for road and agricultural use and produced at the Mannheim plant. It is powered by a water-cooled, horizontally mounted, single-cylinder pre-chamber diesel engine. The impressive 4.2-litre displacement of the single-cylinder unit develops 26 hp / 19 kW, which is reached at an engine speed as low as 800 rpm. The purchase price is between 6,000 and 8,500 Reichsmarks, depending on the model variant.
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  • 1 June 1928
  • British Mercedes-Benz Ltd. in London takes delivery of its first Mercedes-Benz L 5 diesel truck. Following exhaustive tests by the British magazine The Commercial Motor, the Royal Automobile Club awards Daimler-Benz the Dewar Trophy in September that year. The Dewar Trophy is awarded on an annual basis in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of motor vehicle design.
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  • 15 July 1928
  • Mercedes-Benz manages to repeat its success of the previous year at the German Grand Prix for Sports Cars on the Nürburgring. Rudolf Caracciola/Christian Werner, Otto Merz and Christian Werner/Willy Walb sweep the first three places in Mercedes-Benz SS (W 06) models. The SS (for "Super Sport”) is an uprated version of the S. Its 7-litre engine delivers 140 hp / 103 kW without and 200 hp / 147 kW with supercharger.
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  • 29 July 1928
  • In the Gabelbach race, the first racing assignment of the Mercedes-Benz SSK, Rudolf Caracciola gains another victory and sets a new course record. The SSK (for "Super Sport Kurz”) is a derivative of the SS with shortened wheelbase specially developed for hillclimb racing.
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  • 11 August 1928
  • In his Klemm-Daimler L 20 light plane "Kamerad", 22-year-old Baron Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen takes off from Berlin-Tempelhof to fly around the world. For the first leg of his journey, 6,000 km from Berlin - Moscow - Baku - Teheran, he receives the Hindenburg Cup, endowed in December 1927, which the Reichspräsident saw as a means of "heightening interest in competitive flying and encouraging high achievement." The Baron lands back in Germany on 22 November 1929.
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  • Autumn 1928
  • The construction of a press shop at the Daimler-Benz plant in Sindelfingen allows bodies for the passenger cars assembled in Untertürkheim to be manufactured in series rather than single-piece production. This is the first time that deep-drawing presses supplied by Weingarten are used in the series production of large body components of Daimler-Benz.
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  • 8 - 18 November 1928
  • The Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart 200 (W 02), a revised further development of the 8/38 hp, is unveiled at the International Automobile and Motorcycle Show in Berlin. From January 1929 this model is also available with a 2.6-litre engine. Another vehicle presented at the exhibition is a 3.5-litre 14 / 60 hp variant (W 05) developed from the 12/55 hp 3-litre car (W 03/W 04).
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  • 28 December 1928
  • The Austro-Daimler-Puch-Werke Aktiengesellschaft is entered into the commercial register in Vienna. This officially completes the merger between Österreichische Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft AG, the former DMG subsidiary, with Österreichische Flugzeugfabrik AG and Puch-Werke Aktiengesellschaft, based in Graz, Austria. Passenger car production ceases in 1934. Thereafter, production is restricted to military and rail vehicles as well as bicycles and motorcycles.
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