Production chronology1902–1905
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
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Cudell / Model record
CudellFront-Engine De Dion 8 HP
Production1902–1905
Recorded originGermany
ClassVeteran passenger automobile or light commercial vehicle
Power8 hp
Higher-powered licensed front-engine single sold alongside Cudell's own twin-cylinder cars. The range was advertised at 8 hp from December 1902, and an improved 1903 tonneau received four forward speeds. The Royal Hungarian Post tested and ordered an 8 hp De Dion-engined Cudell with enclosed box body, demonstrating that delivery coachwork belonged to this chassis as well as passenger tonneaux and phaetons. A used example reported at 7½ hp became Iceland's first automobile in 1904; the 7½ caption is a period rating of this family rather than proof of another Cudell model. No secure bore, stroke, wheelbase, price sequence or continuous chassis register survives.
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
No 8 HP output total survives; a Hungarian postal order and surviving 7½/8 HP cars prove completed vehicles without defining volume.