This is the first car that came to Serbia: People thought that they are dealing with the DEVIL!

The first car that arrived to Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century was Nesselsdorfer, type B. 

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It was a true technological marvel, it arrived in our country precisely on 3rd April 1903. at 6:20 AM. The owner of the first car in Serbia was rentier Boza Radulovic, son of a famous trader Vojin Radulovic.  

Caresses suddenly entered the Military Academy from which he graduated in 1899 with the rank of lieutenant. The business that brought fortune to his family was not interesting to him. Boza was one of the main hotshots and he loved to spend money. He payed for the car 17.000 kruns, and at the time, good ranking wages were around 1000 kruns. With some calculations, he could have built a house outskirts of the city.  

Unlike today's cars that come with additional equipment, the car Nesselsdorfer, type B, came to Serbia with factory instructor who was obliged to teach driving and mechanic in 45 days. However, Boza was not even thinking about that. He asked his friend before Sreta Kostic, photo editor, to be his driver and he accepted. Profession of a photo editor demanded steady and capable hands that could improve imperfect photos made on the tiles for printing, so Boza thought that Sreten is a perfect person to steer such a complicated device such is automobile.

The first car in Serbia started on that April morning from the railway station to Nemanjina Street, then turned onto the road to the Great Milos for Topcider. People in Belgrade bulged eyes looking at the strange device, a horseless carriage that goes by the capital's cobblestones. Many were wondering in amazement, thinking that they are dealing with the devil. As the driver Sreta said, the reactions were not as comic in Belgrade as they were when they went to the village environment. One little peasant that was standing by the road, caring about the sheep, started running away when he heard the noise from the engine and left the animals to the mercy of an angry dragon.

Foto: Arhivska fotografija

Also, one woman had the misfortune to meet the car during the night and she screamed her lungs out and waved her hands in front of the headlights. When the driver turned off the lights, he noticed her running behind the bushes into the field. In the next morning, it was recorded, locals said to each other: Some devil passed last night through our village, its eyes are shining far and its roaring, and it tears everything on its way.

Boza Radulovic and his driver had problems acquiring gasoline. There was no need for gas stations until then, and there were non. Petrol could be acquired in pharmacies and in small bottles, and it was really expensive, so the owner first car bought it and mixed it with gas. Preparations for the trip were comprehensive and exhausting.

Only three years after importing his first car, Boza Radulovic went bankrupt. Later one anecdote was retold when the car stopped in front of today's London, and Boza helpessly watched at people sitting in the yard of a pub, and Stevan Sremac came out of nowhere and said: Help misfortunate Boza move his only property.

First driver of Serbia, Sreta Kostic, changed numerous bosses, so he was a personal driver of Petar I Karadjordjevic from 1911 to 1915, and the car went don in history, from owner to owner and the last time it was seen was in Skopje, where every trace is lost of it. 

(Telegraf.co.uk / Kafenisanje.rs)