THe genius in Daimler's shadow.(News)(Brief Article)

Automotive News Europe,  January, 2004  

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Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929)

A number of key contributors to the automobile worked in the shadows of the great pioneers. Wilhelm Maybach was one of them.

Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler became friends in the late 1860s. The pair worked on Daimler's Reitwagen (1885) and Motorwagen (1886), which along with similar efforts by Carl Benz are considered the world's first self-propelled vehicles.

Maybach contributed his engineering skills to those cars as well as future Daimler milestones. The Maybach-designed V-twin engine built in 1889 was so advanced that Daimler sold its ...

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