ABSTRACT
I I am almost as old as the motor car. I was not yet born when it was invented in 1886, but I was already a year old when Kaiser Wilhelm II (of whom I have a clear memory) acquired his first car.
My first car journey to Schloss Altenberg, near Greifenstein on the Danube, was in a Mercedes belonging to the owner of the castle, a friend of my father's. Previously we had always been collected by a coach and four, but this time I was told we were going in a Mercedes, the best German motor car and the first of this model to be imported into Austria. It must have been 1907 or 1908.
