I think perhaps too it should be mentioned that the first ever real drive on ordinary roads by a motor car was carried out one weekend by Frau Bertha Benz. She took her children. She herself was a competent mechanic, and without her mechanical skills and improvisation they would never have completed the journey.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Wiesloch_Bertha_Benz_Pit_Elsasser.JPG
At the time I visited Pforzheim (where I heard about this) a memorial was erected at Wiesloch.
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