1897

Ailloud's first automobile used a tubular frame, rear-mounted 618 cc twin, three-speed gearbox and chain drive. It is documented from the 1897…

Alternative form designed to be hitched directly to an ordinary carriage in place of horses. Its application to different carriage bodies did not…

Four-wheel powered unit supplied for integration by chassis and coachwork builders. It was a conversion power pack, not a complete Amiot-bodied…

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

Source-bounded family of twin-cylinder Audibert & Lavirotte automobiles after the initial Benz-like experiments. The firm displayed five cars in…

Gaston Barré's first motor vehicles, assembled after his Niort cycle business expanded beyond bicycles. Tricycle and quadricycle forms remain grouped…

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…

Bonneville's distinct purpose-built light car used a tubular chassis, rear-mounted De Dion-Bouton engine, three-speed transmission and lever steering…

Louis Bonneville and A. Cazeneuve's convertible Train-Cycle adapted a conventional De Dion-Bouton motor tricycle by replacing its single front fork…

Four-wheel configuration preserved from David Burgess Wise's marque account, which explicitly says Bushbury Electric appeared in both three- and…

Best-attested Bushbury vehicle, attributed to Thomas Hugh Parker and the Electric Construction Company with a rolling chassis made by Star Cycle…

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

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

Farnell-badged experimental car with tubular frame, four-speed transmission and unusually early independent wheel suspension. No body form,…

first vehicle developed by Henry Ford

internal combustion

The Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft NW Präsident is a documented vehicle model originating in Czech Republic. Its sourced production…

The Peugeot Type 14 is catalogued as a passenger car from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1897 to 1898.…

The Peugeot Type 15 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1897 to 1901.

The Peugeot Type 16 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1897 to 1900.…

model of automobile manufactured from 1897 to 1902 by the Société anonyme des automobiles Peugeot then headed by Armand Peugeot ; one of the first…

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…