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ON THE
25TH ANNIVERSARY
OF DAIMLER MOTORS COMPANY
UNTERTÜRKHEIM
NOVEMBER 28, 1915
1. THE INVENTION OF THE DAIMLER ENGINE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT UNTIL THE FOUNDATION OF THE DAIMLER MOTORS COMPANY IN 1890
— EARLY MORNING at the Porte Maillot, near Paris. The street swarms with people. They shout and laugh, the "Petit Journal" is shouted out with hoarse shouts. Like flocks of white doves, handkerchiefs flutter here and there, animatedly stirred by waving hands. Paris, as it gathers at the Auteuil racetrack and in the stalls of the Opéra Garnier, and the other Paris that lives in Montmartre, had met here, on the road leading to Rouen; in addition, there were over a hundred vehicles of all kinds: gasoline cars, steam cars, electric cars, hydromobiles, cars with gas and compressed air engines, and those that are electro-pneumatically powered. At the front, among the vehicles, amidst the hustle and bustle of officials, stood the typical figure of the almost 60-year-old Gottlieb Daimler. — —
This was the start of the first international automobile race, organized by "Le Petit Journal" twenty-one years ago in July 1894. The event's success was significant in many respects. The system triumphed; a Daimler car easily won the Paris-Rouen-Paris race against all other vehicles, regardless of their origin. This marked the beginning of an almost uninterrupted sporting career, interrupted only by the war. At the time, however, it was about more than just victory; it was about the confirmation of the principle, the trial by fire of the idea. The Daimler car competed against twenty different systems, crossed the finish line first, and gave its inventor, for the first time, tangible certainty that he had been on the right track from the very beginning. Basically, Daimler didn't need the assurance because he had always been convinced of the potential for development of the gasoline engine. But now it had been proven to the whole world.