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A Pioneer of the Motor Car: The Story of Bertha Benz
7 March 2025 - COLIN JOHNSTON|MOTORSPORT HISTORIAN
This is the story of an automotive pioneer, who accelerated our understanding of the motor unlike any other in the annals of history. Without Bertha Benz, the automotive and motorsport industries we know today simply would not exist…
It was quite the parade through the streets of Ladenburg. A stream of Daimler-Benz vehicles bedecked with flowers, to represent the first half-century of the motor car. All to celebrate the 90th birthday of a formidable pioneer.
Mercedes-Benz W 25 Rekordwagen following Benz ‘Tropfenwagen’, Mercedes-Benz SSK following Benz Patent Motorwagen. …
Bertha Benz who holds the title of the first automobile road trip with her two teenage boys. She was no PR fool either. 
… Bertha Benz hatched a secret plan. A plan to bypass authority, shake society, and show the world why it needed the Benz Patent Motorwagen.
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Together with her two sons Eugen (15) and Richard (13) she pushes the ‘model 3’ Motorwagen from the workshop and down the alley at the back of their Mannheim home - to avoid the local police, posted to make sure this machine never ventures far from home. The boys will swing the huge flywheel and fire the Benz engine once out of earshot. … adventure and hilarity ensued.