Mercedes-Benz W25 Streamliner car Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen 'Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's

'Undertakers regaling themselves at Death's Door'

by Robert Smirke

Radical petitioners are staggering back from the blast issuing from the Regent's posterior

Young mother pushing a pram outside St Andrews Gardens housing

Mercedes-Benz W25 Streamliner car Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen 'Undertakers regaling themselves at Death'sMercedes Benz W25 Streamliner car, 1934. The car is pictured here in its closed cockpit version. Rudolf Caracciola set a Class C (cars with engines of 3000 5000cc) Land Speed Record of 196. 721 mph in this car in Hungary in October, 1934, thus beginning Mercedes' rivalry with Auto Union in speed record breaking which would continue throughout the 1930s.