Speyer - Technikmuseum Speyer - Mercedes Knight 1919
The Mercedes Knight models were equipped with special sleeve-vales engines, which had been licensed by the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft from its inventor, the American Charles Y. Knight, in 1909.
The combustion process was not controlled by normal valves, but by two tubular slide valves with ports that moved between cylinder and piston. Between 1910 an 1923 about 5,350 units of this model were built. The engines rotated rather slowly (max. 1,800 rpm) but had an enormous torque.
Speyer - Technikmuseum Speyer - Mercedes Knight 1919
The Mercedes Knight models were equipped with special sleeve-vales engines, which had been licensed by the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft from its inventor, the American Charles Y. Knight, in 1909.
The combustion process was not controlled by normal valves, but by two tubular slide valves with ports that moved between cylinder and piston. Between 1910 an 1923 about 5,350 units of this model were built. The engines rotated rather slowly (max. 1,800 rpm) but had an enormous torque.