{"id":37423,"date":"2020-04-07T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fahrtraum.at\/ferdinand-porsche-at-daimler-mercedes-benz\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:46:41","slug":"ferdinand-porsche-at-daimler-mercedes-benz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fahrtraum.at\/cs\/ferdinand-porsche-at-daimler-mercedes-benz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferdinand Porsche at Daimler (Mercedes)-Benz"},"content":{"rendered":"

1926 Mercedes 24\/100\/140 PS on display in fahr(T)raum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ferdinand Porsche<\/a> left Austro Daimler<\/a> in 1923 due to differences with the Supervisory Board. As of April 30, 1923, he succeeded Paul Daimler on the Board of Management and as Chief Designer at the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) in Stuttgart. At Daimler he was in charge of the further development of the two-litre Mercedes Kompressor car, so-named for their Roots-type mechanical superchargers (Roots blower). A novelty in the course of their advanced development was exhaust valves filled with mercury for better temperature dissipation.<\/p>\n

Another victory at the Targa Florio<\/h3>\n

In 1924, DMG merged with its long-time competitor Benz & Cie. with Ferdinand Porsche as Chief Designer. In the same year, racing driver Christian Werner drove the Kompressor car to overall victory in the gruelling Targa Florio in Sicily, earning Ferdinand Porsche an honorary Doctor of Engineering title from the Stuttgart Technical University. Interestingly, the racing car for the Targa Florio was not painted in the usual German national colour (white), but in the red of the Italian racing cars \u2013 so that Italian spectators wouldn\u00b4t throw stones at the car.<\/p>\n

\"Mercedes-Targa-Florio-Rennwagen,

Mercedes-Targa-Florio-Rennwagen, 1924. \u00a9 Daimler AG.<\/p><\/div>\n\n