Editing Wilhelm Maybach (section)

==First Daimler-Maybach automobile built (1889)==
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|+ Steel Wheel Automobile 1889
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|{{·}}2 cylinders V-configured
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|{{·}}mushroom shaped valves
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|{{·}}water-cooled
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|{{·}}4-speed toothed gearbox
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|{{·}}pioneer axle-pivot steering system
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Sales increased, mostly from the Neckar motorboat. In June 1887, Daimler bought land in the Seelberg Hills of Cannstatt. The workshop was some distance from the town on Ludwig Route 67, because Cannstatt's mayor objected to the presence of the workshop in the town. It covered 2,903&nbsp;square meters and cost 30,200 goldmarks. They initially employed 23 people. Daimler managed the commercial issues and Maybach the design department.

In 1889 they built their first automobile to be designed from scratch rather than as an adaptation of a stagecoach. It was publicly launched by both inventors in Paris in October 1889.

Daimler's engine licenses began to be taken up throughout the world, starting the modern car industry in:
* France, 1890, [[Panhard|Panhard & Levassor]] and [[Peugeot]]
* United Kingdom, 1896, The Daimler Motor Company of Coventry
* United States of America, 1891, [[Steinway]]
* [[Austro-Daimler]] in Austria, starting in 1899