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Fuel Injection Service/Repair
While Mercedes management vacillated over their future course of action, a totally new development presented itself embodied in the person of Max Hoffman. He had just been named the sole distributor of Mercedes vehicles in the United States, and had become enamored by the W194 and its commercial development as a production car. He backed his interest in a firm order of 1000 cars. Just like 50 plus years earlier with Emil Jellinek, Mercedes saw a business opportunity that would add to their prestige as an automobile manufacturer. They never dreamed of this course of action for their 300SL sports racer. But money talks, and all efforts were now applied to converting the W194 into a production car. Some creature comforts were added of course. It was fortunate that Mercedes continued tests on fuel injection with their aircraft engines and a chance relocation of the fuel injectors from the head to the block and pointing away from the spark plugs that enabled the Bosch fuel injection system to be incorporated into the production car. Vaporization was still a concern and so a second electric pump was added at the gas tank. Moreover, side venting made it into the new design, but not the low pivot swing axle. It had to wait. Actually the first prototype car as shown in February 1954 at the New York Auto Show was still “a work in progress”. It took a few more months before production could begin.

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