1898

First documented motor vehicle from the Coventry concern, patterned after contemporary De Dion-Bouton tricycles. Sources place its appearance in 1898…

Alternative Traveller body retaining the quadricycle layout, wheel steering and unsprung rear arrangement. Exact introduction year is not separately…

Wheel-steered opening Alldays motor vehicle with unsprung rear end. Kept distinct from the swing-seat tonneau because the source model table lists…

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…

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

Core Augé automobile, initially using the Cyclope hot-tube ignition system and electric ignition after 1899. Belt drive reached a countershaft and…

First B.G.S. design, developed with Renault assistance. Its roughly 350 kg battery was credited with 130–150 km per charge at 25 km/h under period…

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…

Four-wheel derivative of the motor tricycle, replacing its single front wheel with two front wheels and placing a passenger seat between them. F. R.…

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…

Opening Bozier vehicle family, produced while Gustave Bozier's firm specialized in proprietary transmissions and other automotive mechanisms. Exact…

William Edward Brough's first known complete motor vehicle, built in Basford before his better-recorded motorcycle business. Surviving histories…

Early Brough three-wheeler powered by a proprietary De Dion-Bouton engine. A belt drove the rear axle according to automobile-encyclopedia summaries,…

The Bugatti Type 1 is a documented vehicle model originating in France. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1898 to 1900.

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

The electric machine nicknamed the 'triplette infernale' was a special competition/record tricycle, not a passenger model derived from the 1896…

Licensed light car derived from Léon Bollée practice and represented by a Science Museum example made in 1898. A 1907 retrospective describes the 5…

Small two-seater carrying combined Darracq-Perfecta identity and mechanically distinct from the licensed 5 HP Bollée-system car. Its 84 x 90 mm…

A light motor tricycle sold during the Perfecta-to-Darracq transition and powered by a 1.75 HP De Dion-Bouton single. The Suresnes works began with…

Four-wheel companion to the early motor tricycle and still a cycle-derived quadricycle rather than the later Type C light car. Sources associate the…

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

Opening Germain automobile, sold under several period identities reflecting its licensed engineering. Two survivors are held in Belgian museums, but…

Small car built under an Elan licence alongside Germain's larger Daimler/Panhard-derived products.

Gobron-Brillié pioneered opposed-piston engines in early motor cars.

1898 automobile prototype

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 21 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1898 to 1901.…

The Peugeot Type 24 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1898 to 1901.…

Motor car produced by French.

The Porsche P1 is a documented vehicle model originating in Austria. Its sourced production chronology begins in 1898. The catalog also contains…

The Renault Voiturette is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Renault marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1898 to 1903.