1896

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

Opening powered Beeston lineage and one of Britain's earliest manufactured motor vehicles. The single steerable front wheel and engine between the…

first serial-produced car

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

Complete source-defined C. H. Black range. Period summaries group the vehicles by 2.5–8 hp ratings and three body styles rather than preserving…

The only defensible automobile sold under the plain Dalifol marque. Reference histories identify a horizontal-engined gasoline car built in Paris in…

An encyclopedia-described voiturette built in the Dulac factory at Montreuil-sous-Bois and distinguished by two separate De Dion engines. Accessible…

Alexandre Darracq's first documented powered road vehicle, displayed in December 1896 with a closed passenger compartment and an elevated driver…

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…

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

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

first vehicle developed by Henry Ford

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

The Indianapolis Automobile and Vehicle Company Black is a documented vehicle model from the United States-origin Indianapolis Automobile and Vehicle…

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

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…

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…

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…