To: Mengerian; All
Who was the Mercedes Benz named after?
26 posted on
02/25/2009 1:17:44 PM PST by
Kaslin
(Acronym for Obma: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
The lovely Mercedes, of course.
29 posted on
02/25/2009 1:19:13 PM PST by
Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: Kaslin
Mercedes was the name of the daughter of a racer who drove early DMG cars (Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft). The brand name Mercedes-Benz was owned by the production company Daimler-Benz, which was formed when DMG merged with Benz & Cie.
I knew the Mercedes name was from someone's daughter, but had to look up that said someone, and the full history of how the name "Mercedes-Benz" came to be.
51 posted on
02/25/2009 1:31:44 PM PST by
IYAS9YAS
(Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
To: Kaslin
http://www.all-mercedes-benz.com/Mercedes_Benz_History.html
"Mercedes" was the 10-year-old daughter of the very first auto dealer in the world, Emil Jellinek, when he ordered over 35 Daimler-Benz cars to handle, and put her name on the vehicles. The prototype internal combustion machine had been patented in 1885 by Karl Benz, and the gas engine by Gottlieb Damiler that same year.
Speaking of cars, the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh PA has an 1898 French luxury car, which looks fantastic.
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