Benz Parsifal

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Parsifal
Production period: 1902-1905
Class : Small car , lower middle class , middle class
Body versions : Tonneau , double phaeton
Engines:
Petrol engines : 0.95-5.9 liters
(5.9-26 kW)
Length: 3220-3935 mm
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 2100-3050 mm
Empty weight : 800-1400 kg
Previous model Benz Tonneau / Phaeton
Benz Elegant
successor Benz 18 hp
Benz 28/30 hp
Benz 35/40 hp

The Benz Parsifal was the new Benz series in 1902, replacing all previous models.

history

While Benz had sold over 600 vehicles per year up to 1900, the numbers fell to 385 in 1901 and to just 226 in 1902. The design manager Julius Ganß brought the French Marius Barbarou into his development team, who ran his own "French" design office with five colleagues, where he further developed the plans for cars and engines he had brought with him from his home country. At the same time, the “German” design office also developed a completely new series of engines.

The new Parsifal series ultimately combined the French vehicle designs with the German engines, as they had proven to be better than the French. In addition to the familiar single-cylinder, in-line engines with two and four cylinders were used for the first time at Benz.

But nobody was really satisfied with the solution found. Carl Benz could not get over the fact that Barbarou was now recognized as the leading engineer in the development of the new cars, and left the management in April 1903. For his part, Barbarou was offended that his engine designs had been discarded and said goodbye in the autumn of the same year. When the new Parsifal cars finally proved to be just as unsuccessful as their predecessors, Ganß had had enough and left Benz in 1904.

The remaining engineers of the "German" design office, Diehl and Erle , revised the Parsifal cars and in 1905 presented the more salable successors.

technology

The wagons had wooden spoke wheels with pneumatic tires and rigid axles with semi-elliptic leaf springs. They were equipped with a three- or four-stage countershaft transmission with reverse gear, which was first connected to the rear axle by a cardan shaft .

The following engines were available:

model Construction period cylinder Displacement Bore × stroke power at speed
8/10 hp 1902-1903 2 row 1527 cc 90 mm × 120 mm 8-10 PS (5.9-7.4 kW) 1250 min -1
10/12 hp 1902-1903 2 row 1727 cc 100 mm × 110 mm 10-12 PS (7.4-8.8 kW) 1280 min −1
12/14 hp 1902-1903 2 row 2250 cc 105 mm × 130 mm 12-14 hp (8.8-9.6 kW) 1200 min −1
16/20 hp 1902-1903 4 row 3100 cc 90 mm × 120 mm 16-20 PS (12.4-14.7 kW) 1280 min −1
8 hp 1903-1904 1 952 cc 105 mm × 110 mm 8 HP (5.9 kW) 1400 min −1
12 hp 1903-1905 2 row 2250 cc 105 mm × 130 mm 12 HP (8.8 kW) 1300 min -1
22 hp 1903-1905 4 row 3496 cc 94 mm × 126 mm 22 HP (17.4 kW) 1300 min -1
35 hp 1903-1904 4 row 5880 cc 120 mm × 130 mm 35 HP (26 kW) 1300 min -1

All models were available as Tonneau or Phaeton , each with four seats.

The maximum speed of the smaller cars was 35–40 km / h, the large ones reached up to 85 km / h. Depending on the size and strength, the sales prices also differed from 5,200 for the single-cylinder model to 14,000 for the large four-cylinder.

source

  • Werner Oswald: Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars 1886–1986. 4th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-613-01133-6 , pp. 14-15, 36-38.