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2 unusual facts about Karl Benz


Enrico Bernardi

In 5 August 1882 he prototyped the “Motrice Pia”, the first petrol combustion engine (one cylinder, 121.6 displacement), almost at the same time as German Karl Benz.

Tonbridge

The guilty driver was a Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, who was fined one shilling for speeding at eight miles per hour (mph) in a 2 mph zone in Paddock Wood, in his Karl Benz powered car.



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