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    Hi Gang:
    This tricycle is properly know as the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen", Mercedes didn't enter the company name until 1929 when Benz joined Daimler.
    Benz's wife made history when Bertha Benz drove the Motorwagen from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her two sons, 180 km. This was the first long journey in the first motorized vehicle. Bertha also help design and build parts for the Motorwagen.
    In 1995 the apprentice shop at Bosch Charleston built a working reproduction which is now on display at the Yorktown Aircraft Carrier in Charleston harbor.
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    There's a nice reproduction at the Nethercutt museum here in LA.

    Restored 1886 Mercedes-Benz - GIF-p1000433.jpg

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    It looks very similar to the one in the original post. I wonder if the video was made at the Nethercutt ?
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    Hi Gang:
    There about 25 motorwagens built by Carl Benz before 1900, The Merecedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart has one and the second is in Deutsches Museum in Munich.
    John Bentley Engineering made at least 211 replicas, and many others have been made.
    In the video you can see three columns with Merecedes-Benz circle logos, but the background has forests, perhaps near Stuttgart.
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