A story ... .... Bus.
London, year 1831, Mr. Walter Hancock put on the street the first bus-powered steam for up to 10 passengers could enjoy a walk without getting tired by the London streets. Obviously this was an experiment that went no, although there came the foundations of the current bus.
Was improved and the firm Benz introduced a gasoline engine of a cylinder, rubber tires and chain drive .... The 18 March 1895 in a circuit (online) of 15 Rhine kilometers (Northern Germany) He began to carry 8 passengers.
This project was developed by the need to relocate employees to the city of Netphen. Many factories were located and needed to move personnel without these were delayed in their posts. The journey: Siegen-Netphen and Denz was changed from horse drawn vehicle-to-vehicle drawn "bus".
A vehicle line coming out of Siegen, passed through Netphen and Denz and the first leg out to 6:25 a.m. reaching a maximum speed of 15 km/h. In the summer of that year a second bus Sr became operational. Karl Benz.
In the meantime, France, seeing the success of the project in the neighboring country, the 11 June 1906 He inaugurated the first bus line that served the route between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The path was 5,8 Kilometres.
