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Created on October 18, 2022

Reading time 9min

Written by:

Alexander Trimmel, Daniel Reinhard

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

Denzel 1500 Sport (1954) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Austro-Daimler Alpenwagen (1911) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Austro-Daimler Bergmeister (1930) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Austro-Daimler Prinz-Heinrich Wagen (1910) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Gräf&Stift SR4 (1924) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Kaimann Mk lV (1968) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Laurin & Klement Alpenwagen (1912) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Lohner-Porsche (1901) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Marcus-Wagen (1889) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Porsche 356 (1949) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Sascha Rennwagen (1922) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Steyr Vl Sport (1924) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Steyr-Puch 650 TR (1965) – Ennstal-Classic 2022

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Summary

This article contains the following chapters

The Marcus car (1889)
The Lohner-Porsche (1901)
Austro-Daimler Prinz-Heinrich car (1910)
Austro-Daimler Alpenwagen (1911)
Laurin & Klement Alpenwagen (1912)
Sascha racing car (1922)
Gräf & Stift SR4 (1924)
Steyr Vl Sport (1924)
Austro-Daimler Bergmeister (1930)
Steyr 55 (1939)
Porsche 356/2 Gmünd Coupé (1949)
Denzel 1500 Sport (1954)
Kaimann MK IV (1968)

Estimated reading time: 9min

Preview (beginning of the article)

They are history, they are contemporary witnesses to the start of the automotive age and they are all Austrian. For the first time and uniquely, these valuable exhibits came together in one place in the Enns Valley and invited visitors on a journey through time to the cradle of the automobile. The son of the wealthy Jewish community leader Siegfried Marcus was born in 1831 in Malchin, Mecklenburg. After completing an apprenticeship as a mechanic and attending trade school in Berlin, the 21-year-old moved to Vienna, where he set up his own small workshop at Mariahilferstrasse 107 in 1861. He discovered petrol as a fuel for internal combustion engines and developed a "peculiar apparatus for carbonizing atmospheric air", which was later called a carburettor. He also invented a magnetic ignition for the world's first mobile four-stroke petrol engine, which he installed in a simple handcart as early as 1870. He had the second Marcus car manufactured by "Märkt, Bromovsky & Schulz" in Adamsthal near Brno in 1888/89.

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