1901

AAG's only automobile model: a 5 hp (4 kW) voiturette designed by Professor Klingenberg and manufactured from 1900 until AAG production ended in 1901.

Two-seat light carriage with an Accles single-cylinder 3 hp engine, belt drive to a three-speed gearbox, chain final drive and a body by Arthur…

Four-seat successor with a front-seat-mounted flat-twin 10/15 hp engine and two-speed constant-mesh gearbox. Rights passed to Pollock and later…

Adami's sole production model used a 16 hp engine developed in house by Guido Adami's Florence firm and was first publicly displayed at the 1902…

Lightweight Manhattan-built electric runabout with a tubular bicycle-style frame, 28-inch wire wheels, chain drive, rear-axle and motor brakes, and…

Small proprietary-engine automobile following the Benz-based four-seater. Body form, quantity and exact introduction date are not reliably preserved.

Contract-built model manufactured by Allard for International Motor Car from 1900. It remains separate because Charette is the documented marketed…

Benz-influenced early four-seater identified as the Express in detailed marque summaries. The model and horsepower descriptions are combined to avoid…

Later technical family distinguished by chain rather than belt final drive. At least one example used vis-à-vis coachwork, but that body is treated…

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…

First Altena automobile from the Haarlem-Heemstede works. It established the marque before its 1905 multi-model expansion; exact body forms and the…

Later two-wheel Amiot-Péneau module documented with Augé power and shown attached to carriage and omnibus bodies. Those bodies are applications of…

Battery-electric counterpart to the petrol avant-train. Accessible sources confirm the O. Patin motor relationship but not voltage, capacity, range…

Ferdinant Anderheggen's sole documented automobile type. He built an initial car in 1899, a second at the Willink brothers' Amsterdam workshop in…

Smaller of Victor Antoine's two documented automobiles, drawing on his Liège engine-building activity. Exact body and withdrawal date within the…

Only documented Äskulap vehicle family, associated with Ignaz/I. Schwarz's machine works at Linienstraße 154a, Berlin, and apparently aimed at…

Later four-cylinder class from Lyon's first sustained automobile maker. Approximately 150 Audibert & Lavirotte vehicles of all forms were completed…

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…

One of the later power classes offered after the original 4 hp Augé. Exact engine orientation, body pairing and introduction month varied and are not…

Middle later-output Cyclope/Augé variant, offered with the marque's characteristic dos-à-dos or troika seating choices.

Highest source-listed Augé power class. The record distinguishes the documented rating without inventing a factory model code that surviving…

Only source-bounded Averly vehicle line, built in a few examples by Lyon electrical engineer Georges Averly. No reliable type name, battery…

Transformable cab body recorded in a contemporary 1899 engineering treatise; retained as its own source-named vehicle type.

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…

Back-to-back four-seat electric body documented in the firm's early catalogs and surviving imagery.

Four-place phaeton configuration documented independently from the lighter two-seat body; exact annual availability is not preserved.

Documented two-place phaeton body on the B.G.S. electric platform; preserved separately because period illustrations identify it as a distinct…

Otto von Bachelle's small Chicago electric carriage, shown as a Stanhope at the 1901 Chicago automobile exhibition. An external right-side steering…

First Barré automobile, presented at the December 1899 Paris Motor Show and awarded a gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Early cars were…

Opening Beaufort design, belt-driven and manufactured in Baden specifically for sale through the English-financed London company. No formal type name…

Source-catalogued Belsize passenger type. Model designations followed British rated-horsepower practice; where contemporary summaries preserve…

first serial-produced car

Smallest documented four-wheel Bernardi production model. Tubular-steel chassis could receive four factory body forms: side-by-side petit-duc, open…

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

Intermediate four-wheel model introduced after the 3½ HP tricar. Accessible sources establish the output designation but do not justify importing the…

Largest published four-wheel Bernardi type and the top of the short-lived Società Italiana Bernardi range. Production ended with the company's…

C. Bij ’t Vuur's first complete automobile, built in-house for the 1901 Toer door Nederland and sold afterward to Arnhem motorist P. W. Riemer. It is…

Collective model identity for all eight hand-built Thomas Bohrer automobiles because no distinct factory type designations survive. The first used an…

Source-catalogued Bolide horsepower family. Exact annual catalog boundaries and body offerings are not preserved; the years reflect the marque's…

Source-catalogued Bolide horsepower family. Exact annual catalog boundaries and body offerings are not preserved; the years reflect the marque's…

Source-catalogued Bolide horsepower family. Exact annual catalog boundaries and body offerings are not preserved; the years reflect the marque's…

Source-catalogued Bolide horsepower family. Exact annual catalog boundaries and body offerings are not preserved; the years reflect the marque's…

Large one-off touring automobile documented among Bourassa's experiments. Its exact construction year and mechanical specification are not preserved,…

Electric light-car family that followed Bozier's tricars after the firm moved to Puteaux. Sources preserve the propulsion type but no formal model…

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

Braun's compact central/under-seat-engine design described in the Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung of 23 December 1900. A photographed car associated…

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

Best-documented early Brown car, driven through a two-speed Bozier gearbox. The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain dates a surviving example to 1899.…

Long-running single-cylinder Brown veteran car. Body and chassis specifications varied and contract construction by outside works may have occurred;…

Earliest Brown Brothers three-wheeler from Great Eastern Street. Period-derived model tables group tricycle and quadricycle but their wheel counts…

Smaller of the Buffalo Automobile & Auto-Bi Company's two car models. It shared the catalog with motorcycles, tricycles and Auto-Quads, which are…

Larger gasoline automobile of the original Buffalo company, including the documented 1902 Senior Model 7. E. R. Thomas absorbed the concern in 1903.

Source-catalogued body/model family from the original Buffalo Electric Carriage Company. The company claimed batteries could be fully charged in 45…

First series Buffum luxury car on a 94.5-inch wheelbase, priced at $2,500. Sources disagree whether output was 16 or 20 hp.

John Bullock's first complete motor vehicle from his Adelaide cycle works. Contemporary-derived histories describe a light side-by-side two-seater…

Period and standard-reference accounts explicitly include electric automobiles in the California offering, but no authentic model name, body,…

A second design closely resembled a Henriod et Cie automobile. Sources cannot establish whether it was licensed, copied or independently adapted; its…

Development of Bainbridge L. Ryder's earlier experimental automobile and the company's best-documented opening product. The surviving literature does…

California also advertised or constructed steam automobiles before the Calimobile rename. Evidence does not prove that this unnamed opening program…

Commercial delivery program serving Toronto industrial customers and export work. Many early Still vehicles were custom-bodied or conversions of…

Moderately successful two-seater developed by William J. Still before the March 1900 reorganization and continued/exported by Canadian Motors. It…

Small two-place electric commonly dated from 1900 and described in Canadian EV histories as a three-wheeled Motette. Sparse sources do not establish…

Larger four-passenger companion to the Ivanhoe, exported to Britain and demonstrated in British road trials. A period image caption treats Ivanhoe…

Named electric bus built to order by Canadian Motors. It represents the large passenger/commercial end of the range; seating capacity, body builder,…

More conventional four-wheel range with a central two-person bench and tiller steering. Some auction prose generalizes all Canda cars as…

Longer-wheelbase companion to the Spider Runabout. The Stanhope body and 54-inch chassis establish a separate complete family; seating count,…

Canda's first car: the driver sat on a rear motorcycle saddle and a passenger sat ahead between the front wheels. Bell and lamps were included, and…

Purpose-built commercial-body derivative catalogued separately in Canda's five-model offering. Its enclosed/open cargo details, payload, dimensions…

Three-wheel companion to the Auto-Quadricycle. One standard table confusingly calls its body a Spider Runabout, but no evidence supports merging it…

Chicago Motor Vehicle Company exhibited several gasoline vehicles at the 1900 Inter Ocean Automobile Exhibition and promoted bodies that could be…

Aggregate commercial ledger retained because sources explicitly separate 25 commercial vehicles from passenger-car production but do not preserve…

Evidence-gap umbrella for the initial Clyde automobiles built by Clyde Cycle & Motor Car Co. and George H. Wait. References state that the marque…

Byron V. Covert's pre-production steam project. Georgano-derived references describe a light twin-cylinder steam runabout in a 1901 Covert 'range',…

Cudell's first own-designed automobile engine, introduced at the Stanley Show late in 1901 and technically independent of its continuing De…

Cudell's first licensed De Dion-Bouton-pattern car with its single-cylinder engine beneath a front bonnet. Announced in June 1901 and normally bodied…

Power-increased continuation of the licensed rear-engine Patentwagen, not the visually different front-engine Populaire that Cudell also sold from…

Early competition voiturette representing Darracq's rapid move from licensed light cars into racing. The reported 120 x 120 mm twin calculates to…

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

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…

The Ribeyrolles-engineered Type C was Darracq's first major commercial success and an early example of repeat production using standardized parts.…

Final named De Riancey model, shown in January 1901 and entered around Melun that April. Its 4¾ HP rating, loaded 38 km/h report and 4,400-franc…

The Fiat 10 HP is a documented vehicle model from the Italy-origin Fiat marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1901. The catalog…

The Fiat 12 HP is catalogued as a touring car originating in Italy. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1902. The catalog also…

The Fiat 24-32 HP is catalogued as a executive car from the Italy-origin Fiat marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1905.

The Fiat 6 HP is a documented vehicle model from the Italy-origin Fiat marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1900 to 1901. The catalog…

The Fiat 8 HP is a documented vehicle model from the Italy-origin Fiat marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1901. The catalog…

first vehicle developed by Henry Ford

Opening Fratelli Ceirano automobile. Rear seats were arranged transversely with a central space usable as a small load platform. Two side…

Larger turn-of-the-century Germain class documented by cylinder count and rating only.

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

Compact two-cylinder member of the pre-Standard range.

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

The sole documented passenger car of Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik Gottschalk & Co. The two power ratings were engine choices within one voiturette, not…

automobile by the Kirk Manufacturing Company

The Lanchester 10 is a documented vehicle model from the United Kingdom-origin Lanchester marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1900 to…

Early Riga-built automobile on Leutner's own chassis with wooden bodywork. Seven are reported, and the type gained attention at Riga's 1901…

Touring motorcar produced by DMG

Edwardian-era Napier built the first British production car with 100 hp.

The Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft NW B is a documented vehicle model from the Czech Republic-origin Nesselsdorfer…

First mass-produced automobile in the United States.

The Opel Patent Motor Car is a documented vehicle model from the Germany-origin Opel marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1899 to…

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

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 Peugeot Type 26 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1899 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 27 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1899 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 30 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1900 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 31 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1900 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 33 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 36 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1901 to 1902.…

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

Motorized three-wheeler built during Leutner's first powered-cycle experiments. Latvian and Russian histories confirm tricycle manufacture from 1899…

The Tatra NW Elektromobil is a documented vehicle model from the Czech Republic-origin Tatra marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1900…

Purpose-designed low-frame business vehicle whose teak box body, roof gallery and bronze fittings were styled by Wertheim architect Alfred Messel.…

First fully specified Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik commercial chassis and also available as an omnibus. Period imagery calls the closely related…

One of France's earliest car makers; founded 1899 in Marseille.

Worth-badged passenger car produced by Chicago Motor Vehicle Company and represented by the Louwman Museum survivor. William O. Worth's patented…

Commercially oriented Worth vehicle described as a covered rapid-delivery van whose interchangeable body concept could also carry passengers. Period…