1899, Opel Shifts to Automobiles

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ca. 1899

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With the bicycle market maturing, the Opel brothers finally shifted their attention to the speculative and still-uncertain automobile business. They called their first car the Opel-Patent-Motorwagen System Lutzmann and built only 65 units.