1912 Benz unknown

1912 Benz unknown in Les Vampires, Movie, 1915

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Author	Message
Raul1983 ◊ 2007-08-15 20:37	-- Last edit: 2007-08-15 20:37:56
nzcarnerd ◊ 2007-08-15 20:59	Benz around 1912.
Raul1983 ◊ 2007-08-15 21:24	German car in Paris during WWI ?
nzcarnerd ◊ 2007-08-16 07:14	There was plenty of trade in cars across borders before WW1. I am sure there were probably plenty of French cars in Berlin in WW1 as well. The German teams competed in the 1914 French Grand Prix only a few weeks before the outbreak of war.
DynaMike ◊ 2007-08-16 20:18	Wasn't it mister Emil Jellinek in the South-French city of Nice who proposed to Daimler to sell their cars in France under his daughter's name: Mercédès...? But also in France there were several makes that used a similar classically shaped radiator...
nzcarnerd ◊ 2007-08-16 23:29	It is not a good picture but as far as I can see this car has a Vee shaped radiator which suggests to me it is most likely a Benz. Benz made cars from very small to very large at this time so it is probably not possible to positively identify the model. The high sided body is distinctively German from that pre and early WW1 era. The wire wheels are probably Rudge-Whitworths built under license. Having said all of that, there is no reason why it couldn't be something else entirely! Dynamike - I agree with your comment re Emil Jellinek.