Pictures of Protos motorcars and related documents in chronological order
© Original photos and documents from the Michael Schlenger collection

Protos G2 8/22 h.p., built c.1912

Protos Type G2 8/22 h.p., winning cars on a reliability run in 1912

Protos Type E2 27/65 h.p. with Thomas A. Edison, photo taken in 1911 in Pressburg (today: Bratislava, Slovakia)

Protos advertisement showing the German Crown Prince in his Type E2 27/65 h.p. c.1912

Protos Type E2 27/65 h.p., body by Alexis Kellner (Berlin), built in 1914, advertisement from the German “Motor” magazine, May 1914

Protos C-Type 10/30 h.p., built from 1913 until 1914, photo taken in September 1914

Protos Typ G1 or G2, built c.1912/13, photo taken during WW1

Protos Type G1 or G2, built ca. 1912/13, postwar photo taken in Saxony

Protos G-Type, built c.1912/13, postwar photo taken in Berlin

Protos advertisement from around 1920

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p., built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p. phaeton, built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p. phaeton, built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p., built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p., built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p. sedan, built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p. , built from 1918 until 1924

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p., built from 1918 until 1924, photo taken in 1928

Protos Type C 10/30 h.p., built from 1918 until 1924, used as a taxi (“Droschke”)

Protos Type C1 10/45 h.p., built from 1924 until 1927, used by the German army (“Reichswehr”)

Protos Typ C1 10/45 h.p., built from 1924 until 1927, used by the German army (“Wehrmacht”), photo taken c.1935