Did you know, when did man make a vehicle with a machine? Apparently, it had happened the end of the 19th century. While the classic car made masal first triggered by the German man, Karl Benz, in 1886.
Man from Mannheim makes Motorwagen which looks like a horse carriage but runs on a motorcycle.
The presence of Motorwagen also helped the emergence of other modern cars, one of which is Model T launched the United States company, Ford Motor Company in 1908.
This also makes transportation vehicles evolve and gradually replaces animal-drawn carts and carts which then spread to a number of regions of the world, including in Indonesia.
Behind the history of the birth of a car in antiquity, it turns out there is also a mystical impression on a car like a haunted house, ghost ship, and a mysterious creature.
Reporting on The Vintage News, it turns out since the 1910s, a spooky story on a car has been circulating, one of the cars & Graph Double Phaeton.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Graf & Stift Double Phaeton
This car witnessed a murder that eventually whipped up a global battle, World War I.
As quoted from the New York Times, on June 28, 1914 the Austrian-Hungarian crown prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed while visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. The incident occurred when they boarded the open-topped car, Graf & Stift Double Phaeton.
Despite the great defeat of the car today, but in its era, the car made in Austria in 1910 titu quite great because it has a four-cylinder engine that produces 32 horsepower (Tk).
The car Franz Ferdinand owns belongs to Count Franz von Harrach, an officer in the Austrian Army's transport corps.
According to Das Auto von Sarajevo's book written by Christian Ortner and edited Thomas Ilming, at that time, the Austrian military faced a massive budget tightening. So, instead of riding in a military car, he was transported by a private vehicle.
Factors of the vehicle to be one factor in the event nahas it. Moreover, the arrival of Franz Ferdinand was not welcomed warmly in Sarajevo.
Previously, a bomb that exploded too early after his life. Although Franz Ferdinand escaped, some of his retinue had to be hospitalized.
He probably should have taken that as a sign that it was time to go home. However, he insisted on visiting his wounded friends.
At one time, the car Franz Ferdinand falls on the wrong road and sees his enemy, Gavrilo Princip, sitting outside a cafe.
Princip, who had a golden opportunity, stood up, hurried through the crowd, and aimed a shot at Franz Ferdinand.
He managed to do it just in time. His shot of Ferdinand's body became a drum of war that was heard all over the world.
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The Austrian-Hungarian crown prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie prepare to enter the double phaeton Graf & Stift car
Car Horror
After the shooting of Franz Ferdinand, the mute-witnessed car was sold to the hands of the 15 owners over a 12-year period.
Surprisingly, in 12 years, at least 13 people died after driving the car.
The last accident happened to the owner of a Romanian tajir. He was hurt while traveling to a wedding with his five friends.
The nobleman and his friends were killed in a terrible accident, so the car earned the nickname 'Death Car'.
The myth also appears, and the car 'always' takes the casualties of anyone on board after Franz Ferdinand's shooting incident.
In fact, shortly after the number of incidents, Count von Harrach gave the car a fate to Emperor Franz Joseph - who later donated it to a museum in Austria.
Thomas Ilming, an expert on weapons and technology at the Austrian Military Museum, denied the Graf & Stift car had no reverse gears that slowed the driver while changing directions.
Then, from where the story of the curse began. Museum spokesman Manfred Litscher suspected the rumor was triggered by the news of a British victim.
He asserts Graf & Stift double phaeton, which witnessed the murder of Franz Ferdinand has been in the museum since 1914 and never used.