Production chronology1898–1902
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
curated ↗5 years
← Brough
Brough / Model record
Brough2½ HP Motor Tricycle
Production1898–1902
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
ClassOpen motor tricycle
Power2.5 hp
Early Brough three-wheeler powered by a proprietary De Dion-Bouton engine. A belt drove the rear axle according to automobile-encyclopedia summaries, distinguishing it from a conventional motor bicycle with a single driven rear wheel. Accessible histories do not preserve seating capacity, exact steering arrangement, displacement, gearbox, brakes, price or whether more than one was completed. It is admitted as a qualifying motor tricycle without importing specifications from generic De Dion machines.
Chronology ledger
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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
Only a very small experimental or early-production quantity is evidenced; exact total unknown.