models
c. 1894–1897
Audibert & Lavirotte Rear-engine Benz-type

Opening customer-built Lyon design, broadly following contemporary Benz practice. Sources preserve the layout but not a reliable factory type…

France
1894–1902
Benz & Cie. Benz Velo

first serial-produced car

Germany
1894–1901
Bernardi 3½ HP Tricar

Enrico Bernardi's foundational vehicle, with two front wheels and one driven rear wheel. The 1894 prototype preceded organized Miari, Giusti…

Italy
1894–1895
Buffum Stanhope Prototype
One-off

Herbert H. Buffum's pre-company experimental car, preserved in model chronologies but built years before H. H. Buffum & Co. entered series automobile…

United States
1895
Chicago Times-Herald Contest Car

Earliest documented automobile of the Chicago Motor Vehicle Company, a carriage-building concern with Chicago offices and a Harvey, Illinois factory.…

United States
1895–1896
De La Vergne Motor Drag

Larger Valentine Linn & Son-bodied De La Vergne carriage, reported to seat six and in one source as many as eight. Water-jacketed cylinders used a…

United States
1895–1896
De La Vergne Motor Hunting Trap

Smaller De La Vergne experimental carriage, intended for rough roads and hunting equipment and bodied by Hincks & Johnson of Bridgeport. Its period…

United States
1895–1899
De Riancey De Riancey–Gévin Avant-Train Voiturette

Early De Riancey front-wheel-drive concept in which the motorized, steering front axle replaced the horse under an existing or purpose-built rear…

France
1894–1896
Garrard & Blumfield Electric Carriage

Collective identity for the neat, well-fitted electric carriages patented and marketed by C. R. Garrard and T. W. Blumfield and constructed for them…

United Kingdom
1894–1896
Peugeot Type 10

The Peugeot Type 10 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1894 to 1896.…

France
1893–1896
Peugeot Type 5

The Peugeot Type 5 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1893 to 1896. The…

France
1894–1897
Peugeot Type 7

The Peugeot Type 7 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1894 to 1897. The…

France
1893–1896
Peugeot Type 8

The Peugeot Type 8 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1893 to 1896. The…

France