History of Mercedes Benz............

Mercedes – a Spanish girls’ name meaning ‘grace’ – was the
name of the daughter born in 1889 to the Austrian
businessman, Emil Jellinek, who had homes in Baden near
Vienna and Nice.

A progressive thinker with an interest in sport, Jellinek
turned his enthusiasm to the dawning age of the
automobile, an invention he knew would be of key
importance for the future. As early as 1897, he made the
journey to Cannstatt to visit the Daimler factory and
ordered his first Daimler car - a 6 hp belt-driven vehicle
with two-cylinder engine.

But the car, delivered in October 1897 and with a top
speed of 24 km/h, was soon too slow for Jellinek. He
demanded 40 km/h and ordered two more vehicles. Supplied
in September 1898, the two Daimler “Phoenix” cars, with
their front–mounted 8 hp engines, were the world’s first
road vehicles with four-cylinder engines.

Emil Jellinek had good contacts with the worlds of
international finance and the aristocracy and became
increasingly active as a businessman. In 1898, he began to
promote and sell Daimler automobiles - in particular,
within the higher echelons of society. In 1899, DMG
supplied Jellinek with 10 vehicles; in 1900, he received
as many as 29.

Jellinek demanded ever faster and more powerful vehicles
from DMG. From 1899, he also entered these in race
meetings – first and foremost of which was the Nice week –
where he would race under his pseudonym, ‘Mercédès’, the
name of his daughter aged ten at the time. Initially, he
used the name not as an automotive brand name but merely
as a team and driver designation.

At the beginning of April 1900, Jellinek made an agreement
with DMG concerning sales of Daimler cars and engines. The
decision was taken to develop a new engine “bearing the
name Daimler-Mercedes”, thereby introducing Jellinek's
pseudonym as a product designation. Two weeks later,
Jellinek ordered 36 of the vehicles at a total price of
550,000 marks – a sizeable order even at today’s
equivalent value of DM 5.5 million. A few weeks later, he
placed an order for another 36 vehicles, all with 8 hp
engines.
MODELS:
A - Class
C - Class
E - Class
S - Class
SLK - Class
SL - Class
CLK - Class
CL - Class
SLR
M - Class
G - Class
Viano MARCO POLO
Sprinter JAMES COOK
Vito
Sprinter
Vario