Daimler Motor

Daimler Motor, a specially modified petroleum oil-engine (see GAS-ENGINE, Vol. V, p. 109), perfected by the inventor, Gottlieb Daimler of Cannstatt in Württemberg (who assisted Otto of Deutz in perfecting his gas-engine), for use in automobiles (see TRACTION-ENGINES). Such carriages could, even when noisy and smelly, they were first put upon the roads, easily do twelve and a half miles an hour, and carry supplies of petroleum for four or more hours' running. Experiments—which involved several days' running—were successfully carried out between Paris and Bordeaux in June 1895. Similar experiments were subsequently repeated in England.