Mercedes Benz

[leilanea.livejournal.com]

1920s: Beauty: Mercedes Benz 1931: "Everywhere Mercedes Benz" Announcing the merger of the two companies 1954 Mercedes Benz won the prize of Tripoli ...and Gaddafi lost.

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

That merger poster is awesome! The goddess of Industry sanctifies their union and makes them one. Now the red car and the yellow car can get it on and it's totally legal now. I have been through several corporate mergers and none of them ever had cool art like that. I wonder if that artwork emblazoned the layoff notices.

I like that Omnibusse, too. These are all nice ads and they don't terrify me as much as that militaristic one someone posted a few days ago.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Those are some gorgeous ads. I especially like the first one.

Stupid question, but is Tradition a German word or did they put an English word on there?

(I'd look it up myself but online foreign language research is so iffy.)

[leilanea.livejournal.com]

It's a Latin word... and English is derived from German and Latin (in a nutshell...). In fact, the word "tradition" is the exact same in German, English, French and very similar in Spanish and Italian... precisely because it is Latin.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Ah right! I knew it was very similar in Spanish but since it is spelled slightly differently I thought it might be in German too.

Thanks!

[apckrfan.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are really neat! My dad would love them for sure. I especially like the first one.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

I see that (badly rendered) merger poster a seriously arrogant expression of German industrial might in 1931. Look at that face, she looks rather angry, one arm raised and victory, the other holding hammer and oh, there's the whole world behind her. What will the Goddess of German Industry do with that hammer? Well the world would soon find out, and M-B did not acquit themselves honorably in the war years, what with the enforced slave labor and all. (And no, the Nazis did not make them do it, corporate industrialists like the Krupps and M-B were some of the Nazi party's earliest sponsors- they saw it as a way to cut off pesky Communism giving their workers the wrong ideas.)

[leilanea.livejournal.com]

I think you're interpreting "in hindsight" a bit much now... The hammer and overall to me look rather worker style.. communist chic even.

[leilanea.livejournal.com]

On that deleted comment of yours: Let me rephrase- which multinational is not trying to conquer the world?

And yup, you're right, I still have to figure out formatting. Any concrete advice on that is appreciated.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

Hi Leilana- just want you to know I did not delete the comment, but I am glad you read it. I apologize if it was unnecessarily rude, I really do. And thank you for the many beautiful pictures, they're wonderful.

"which multinational is not trying to conquer the world? "- Well, not in the same sense that Germany Inc. in the 1930's announced they were going to, and gave it their best shot. I'll leave it at that.