{"id":80461,"date":"2021-09-21T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=80461"},"modified":"2021-09-29T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T09:11:36","slug":"100-years-of-mercedes-supercharger-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/100-years-of-mercedes-supercharger-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of Mercedes supercharger cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the 1921 German Motor Show (Deutsche Automobil-Ausstellung, DAA) in Berlin, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) presented two completely new model series. The 6\/25 PS and 10\/40 PS models were the very first Mercedes vehicles with supercharging. This new technology ensured that it was still more than a year before the market launch. But these vehicles already caused a sensation at the motor show held from September 23 to October 2, 1921, in what were then the exhibition halls on Kaiserdamm. The DAA was a forerunner of the IAA, which is still known today. This name was already used between 1904 and 1911, and in the 1930s the name was changed to IAMA for Internationale Automobil- und Motorrad-Ausstellung (International Car and Motorcycle Exhibition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Daimler experimented with supercharging<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The development of the supercharged engines took place under the leadership of Paul Daimler. As the eldest son of the company’s founder Gottlieb Daimler, Paul took over as head of vehicle development department in 1907 following the retirement of Wilhelm Maybach. For the new engines with 1.6 and 2.6 liters displacement, he relied on Roots-type rotary blowers. The brothers Philander Highley and Francis Marion Roots patented this design in 1860, in which two two- or three-bladed rotors move the incoming air from the intake to the discharge side, compressing it in the process. Paul Daimler conducted initial experiments with the Roots supercharger on aircraft engines during World War 1. In 1919, he used it on a test basis on an example of the then-current Mercedes-Knight 10\/40 PS. However, its slide valve engine couldn’t be successfully combined with a supercharger.<\/p>\n\n\n

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