Benz: first two-stroke diesel marine engine

Eighteen months after the acquisition of the manufacturing and sales rights for Germany and Austria-Hungary, Benz & Cie. delivers the first "Hesselman patent” two-stroke diesel marine engine built by the company. The reliability of the engine, which the Swedish firm Aktiebolaget Diesels Motorer has been producing in Stockholm since 1907, is demonstrated in impressive fashion by the research vessel Fram. Roald Amundsen had the ship fitted with a 180 hp / 132 kW unit of this design in early 1910 in preparation for his Antarctic expedition.