GasMotorenFabrik, which Nikolaus Otto co-owned in 1872. There is some controversy as to who built the first motorcycles Otto or Daimler. In 1883, it was Gottlieb Daimler who breathed life into the first lightweight, high-speed petrol engine working together with his friend Wilhelm Maybach and close colleague in what later became the famous Gartenhaus in Cannstatt near Stuttgart. In an epoch-making first step they transformed an age-old vision into reality. The universal four-stroke power source be registered with the patent office in April 1885, and featuring key detail inventions such as hot tube ignition and float-type carburettor be was ready for fitting in coaches, railway carriages, boats, ships and the aeroplane which had also just been born, for driving pumps and electric power generators.



Its breathtaking development was about to take off, on land, on water and in the air, just as Gottlieb Daimler had always wanted it and as symbolised by the three points of the Mercedes star adopted later.In 1894, the first automobile race in the world was won by a car with a Daimler engine.
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took Nicolaus Otto`s internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine. Daimler`s connection to Otto was a direct one; Daimler worked as technical director of Deutz.
The 1885 Daimler - Maybach engine was small, lightweight, fast, used a gasoline-injected carburetor, and had a vertical cylinder. The size, speed, and efficiency of the engine allowed for a revolution in car design. On March 8, 1886, Daimler took a stagecoach and adapted it to hold his engine, thereby designing the world`s first 4-wheeled automobile.



In 1889, Daimler invented a V-slanted two cylinder, four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves. Just like Otto`s 1876 engine, Daimler`s new engine set the basis for all car engines going forward. Also in 1889, Daimler and Maybach built their first automobile from the ground up, they did not adapt another purpose vehicle as had always been done previously. The new mashine Daimler 1885 had a four-speed transmission and obtained speeds of 10 mph. Daimler founded the Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1890 to manufacture his designs. Eleven years later, Wilhelm Maybach designed the Mercedes. A few years later left Maybach left Daimler to set up his own factory for making engines for Zeppelin airships. More specs and user manual of Daimler 1885 you can see in next overview.