We had seen this day in our september's schedule! when we arrived in Esslingen, Everybody was excited and waited for the day and finally, Yesterday We visited Mercedes Benz Museum..
I will not post the history here because it's available on various sites, but what i intend is to take you what i saw from my eyes!
Just two stations next to my town is Neckar park (Mercedes Benz) station. It's the headquarters of Daimler AG and location of Museum.
Read the below text which laid the foundation of a new revolution in world!
After the invention of Engine, they motorized almost all carriages on land, water, and air...
And It is History what happened after that, World had got a new mobility opition and indeed these comanies reacted to the demand.
The Museum is built on seven floors, you start at the top floor where it starts with a Horse :-) as an ancient mode of transport! and thereafter it takes you through all inventions in a spiral building as you start to descend floors!!!
All the photos are uploaded in the following gallery (the photo gallery is in reversed order!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53955516@N03/
It starts with the pictorial representation of earlier times without motorized carriages and then as these machines were invented, how the world changed!
All the machines are kept in chronological order and some are protos and some are originally made and preserved till date...
The spiral route takes you through the important events in the History and how that impacted the automobile manufacturing in Germany, imagine from the year 1860 or so a lot have happened in world and esp. Germany which saw many dramatic turn arounds..
Scaling down the floors you come across the history of Daimler in Racing sport! The CAR which won 5 races and has never aborted the race due to mechanical failure is dispayed in ORIGINAL!!!!!!
The latest Mercedes Benz Formula 1 cars and their latest models were on display.
The design studio and product life cycle of the vehicle in a Mercedes Benz was on the display.
Among the other highlights which were displayed on each floor were different categories of automobile like
1. The story of a girl named Mercedes who never saw a Mercedes car and would'nt have imagined the popularity of Brand.
2. The invention of supercharger and turbocharger which made the high speed cars possible.
3. How the events in history created demand for vehicles and what were the answers of Daimler to them!
4. The Famous Mercedes Benz cars owned by celebrities..
5. First proto of Modern Automobile and its Structure!!!!
6. The original sketches and drawings of engines and vehicles
7. Antique Mercedes models
8. Cut section of a Formula 1 vehicle!!
9. Latest models and concept vehicles
10. Customer centre (where i took a feel of sitting inside Mercedes :-) )
The sports section shown in the photos is not often opened, it was opened when we were there!
Was indeed a great experience and tiresome journey back to my room :-)
Enjoy Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53955516@N03/
