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1905 Jackson Model C A Royal Tourist model US Army vehicle, circa 1906. The vehicle was the conveyance of General Frederick Funston (leftmost figure in the back seat). A 1911 K-R-I-T advertisement A Stanley Steamer racecar in 1903; in 1906, a similar Stanley Rocket set the world land speed record at 127.6 miles per hour (205.4 km/h) at Daytona Beach Road Course
Karl Benz's 1885 Patent Motorwagen (replica). It is considered the world's first I.C.E.-driven car to be series-produced. Opel Olympia (1935–1937). Motor-car pioneers Karl Benz (who later went on to start Mercedes-Benz) and Nicolaus Otto developed four-stroke internal combustion engines in the late 1870s; Benz fitted his design to a coach in 1887, which led to the modern-day motor car.
From 1894 to 1902, Benz produced over 1,200 of what some consider the first mass-produced car, the Velocipede, later known as the Benz Velo. [20] The early Velo had a 1L 1.5-metric-horsepower (1.5 hp; 1.1 kW) engine, and later a 3-metric-horsepower (3 hp; 2 kW) engine. giving a top speed of 19 km/h (12 mph).
Reichsautobahn car plaque The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under Nazi Germany . There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic , and two had been constructed, but work had yet to start on long-distance highways.
Medium off-road passenger car, older version with free spinning spare support wheels on each side. Einheits-Pkw der Wehrmacht – literally: "standard passenger motor-car of the Wehrmacht" – was Nazi Germany's plan for a new, multi-purpose fleet of all wheel drive off-road vehicles, based on just three uniform chassis, specifically designed and built for the Wehrmacht (the Nazi military).
Motorcycles also have plates in two lines but with specific dimensions: Plates for "large motorcycles" (engine displacement over 125 cc or power output exceeding 11 kW (15 bhp)) issued until 2011 combine a size of 280 mm × 200 mm (11 in × 7 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) with characters of the same size as used for car plates, while those issued since 2011 ...
The Panzer I (Sd. Kfz. 101) was not intended as a combat vehicle but rather to familiarise industry and the army with tanks. By the time production ended in 1937, 1,869 Panzer I hulls had been produced, of which 1493 were fitted with turrets.