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Press Kit: Bertha Benz and the world’s first long-distance trip in an automobile

Press Kit: Bertha Benz and the world’s first long-distance trip in an automobile
Stuttgart/Mannheim, Jun 27, 2008 - In August 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her two sons in the Patent Motor Car built by her husband Carl Benz. A few days later, she returned to Mannheim. This first long-distance trip in the history of the automobile was a pioneering undertaking.