Benz Victoria, 1893

Benz Viktoria

The car Benz Viktoria from the collections of the National Technical Museum is the oldest factory-made road motor vehicle driven on the territory of the Czech Republic. The car was manufactured in the Mannheim factory of Karl Benz in 1893 and its first owner, the textile businessman Theodor von Liebieg from Liberec, was driving it on the almost one- thousand-kilometre long journey from Liberec to Gondorf near Koblenz - the first long-distance journey in the car history.
Technical specification:
Passenger car with a liquid-cooled four-stroke single- cylinder engine mounted in the rear part and with rear driven wheels. Swept volume of engine 1724 cm³, power 4 HP, maximum speed 20 km/h.