Production chronology1898
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗1 year
← Brough
Brough / Model record
Brough1898 Small Car
Production1898
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
ClassOpen experimental light car
Built1 units
William Edward Brough's first known complete motor vehicle, built in Basford before his better-recorded motorcycle business. Surviving histories identify it only as a small car and preserve no photograph-derived dimensions, seating layout, transmission, steering, engine specification or registration. It remains separate from the subsequent De Dion-powered tricycle because the sources explicitly place a small car first. The transparent descriptive name avoids inventing a factory model designation.
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
One documented experimental car; no series manufacture is evidenced.