1902

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…

Complete documented range from Hache et Lassougade/Ache Frères. The engine sat behind the single front wheel and drove the rear axle by belt. Two or…

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…

Final Allard-badged automobile, exhibited in 1902 as the Coventry business completed its transition into Rex Motor Manufacturing.

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…

Opening Anglo-Dane motor vehicle and initially the marque's main product. Exact type name, dimensions and model-specific output do not survive; the…

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

Henri Jeannin's opening Berlin automobiles copied Panhard & Levassor practice and used French engines and many French components before Argus…

Three-wheeled passenger/cargo form listed alongside Ascot's solo motorcycles. Dimensions, quantity and exact engine split remain unknown.

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…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

Source-catalogued shaft-drive Beaufort horsepower family, manufactured in Baden for the British market. Exact annual introduction and withdrawal…

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

first serial-produced car

Berna's first production car; twelve vehicles of the opening Berna design were built across 1902–03, although no trustworthy model-level split…

Larger 1902 RAI type, listed at 3,600 guilders and sharing the marque's comparatively modern shaft-drive chassis architecture.

Early sale model displayed with robust tonneau coachwork and De Dion-Bouton-style bonnet. The cylinder-count conflict is retained explicitly rather…

Smaller of the two principal 1902 RAI production types, priced at 2,800 guilders. Wooden wheels and patent axles were advertised, with no belts or…

Lighter of the two named Binney & Burnham models, built to individual order. Sources describe the smallest two-seater as weighing about 500 kg and…

Large eight-passenger touring companion to the Model B. James L. Binney and John Appleton Burnham produced these heavy steam cars only against…

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…

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

Collective identity for Albert Bovy's first simple, robust small cars, produced at Molenbeek around 1902 and described as semi-convertible…

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…

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

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

First documented twin-cylinder Brown 8 HP series. Its displacement distinguishes it from two separate 1904 8 HP cars and the 1905 1,559 cc version;…

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.

The Bugatti Dietrich-Bugatti is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Bugatti marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1902 to…

Stronger second Bullock automobile, built at the Pirie Street works with a water-cooled De Dion-Bouton engine and two-speed gearbox. A March 1903…

Cadillac's first model; single-cylinder.

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…

Larger four-seat Calimobile steam car. San Francisco's Palace Hotel bought two touring cars, a documented fleet sale that does not establish the…

Largest documented Calimobile body, built in three examples. Sources do not preserve whether the factory called it a brake, wagonette, omnibus or…

Smallest Calimobile and the continuation of the company's runabout market after the 1902 badge change. No reliable price, wheelbase, boiler or…

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…

The Castro vehicles Castro 14 HP is catalogued as a mid-size car from the Spain-origin Castro vehicles marque. Its sourced production chronology runs…

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

Only documented Chicago-badged automobile of the Chicago Motocycle Company before it adopted Caloric for 1903. A surviving illustration establishes…

Sole documented Clipper automobile family, nearly identical to the 1901 Michigan Steam Car/Carter Steam Stanhope. It used lever steering, 32-inch…

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…

Covert's first documented marketed automobile, advertised by B. V. Covert & Co. in spring 1902 and put into series manufacture by late summer. Its…

Purpose-designed commercial model rather than a passenger tonneau carrying an incidental box body. In 1902 both the Berlin Oberpostdirektion and…

One of Cudell's large in-house four-cylinder offerings, independently listed at 20 hp before and alongside the smaller 16/20 family. Period…

Large chain-driven four-cylinder positioned above the 20 HP in Cudell's ambitious 1902 program and again mentioned among Paul Henze's 1904…

Cudell's 1902 flagship, announced in July with a newly developed four-speed gearbox, reverse, chain drive and claimed maximum speed of at least 90…

Larger and longest-lived of Cudell's own twin-cylinder passenger families. The dark-blue Doktor-Spezialwagen shown in Berlin in March 1903 used…

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…

Higher-powered licensed front-engine single sold alongside Cudell's own twin-cylinder cars. The range was advertised at 8 hp from December 1902, and…

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

Final higher-powered development of Cudell's rear-engine De Dion-Bouton Type D-derived Patentwagen. It is retained separately from the 4½ HP because…

The original Hüttel-and-Sfetescu Cyklon transport tricycle built at Erlau before the developed Cyklonette name was introduced. The archival source…

The Daimler Twenty-Two is a documented vehicle model from the United Kingdom-origin Daimler marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1902…

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 1902 light car used a brazed tubular chassis, pump water circulation, battery-and-coil ignition, float carburettor and automatic induction…

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.

Power-developed successor to the 5 HP using the same broad light-car concept and proprietary French engine supply. The 1902 6 HP/6–8 HP descriptions…

Second rating class in Germain's Panhard-pattern family.

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

Upper-middle Panhard-pattern Germain chassis; body and displacement remain undocumented.

Largest of the four source-listed Panhard-pattern classes.

Heavy end of Germain's prewar utility range. A few unrelated revival trucks built in 1936–1937 are not folded into this lineage without model…

Smallest source-listed Germain commercial class. Its broad date range reflects the verified commercial-vehicle period, not unchanged continuous…

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

Smallest of four rating-defined Panhard-pattern Germain chassis for 1902–1903.

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

Larger Renault-pattern counterpart to Germain's licensed twin.

One of two Renault-licensed Germain lines, separated by cylinder count where no factory type code survives.

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

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…

Source-bounded aggregate for Leutner light trucks and other commercial automobiles built alongside passenger cars at Riga. Surviving advertisements…

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…

The Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft NW C 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 Packard Model G is a documented vehicle model from the United States-origin Packard marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1902 to…

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

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 Peugeot Type 37 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1902 to 1902.…

The Peugeot Type 48 is a documented vehicle model from the France-origin Peugeot marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from 1902 to 1909.…

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…

1903 racing car

The Studebaker Electric is catalogued as a electric car from the United States-origin Studebaker marque. Its sourced production chronology runs from…

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.