The Ford Mannequin T (foreground) and Volkswagen Beetle (background) are among the most mass-produced automotive models in historical past. By 1900, the early centers of national automotive industry developed in many nations, together with Belgium (house to Vincke , which copied Benz; Germain , a pseudo-Panhard; and Linon and Nagant , each primarily based on the Gobron-Brillié ), 6 :p,25 Switzerland (led by Fritz Henriod , Rudolf Egg, Saurer , Johann Weber , and Lorenz Popp ), 6 :p.25 Vagnfabrik AB in Sweden, Hammel (by A. F. Hammel and H. U. Johansen at Copenhagen, in Denmark, which solely constructed one car, ca. 1886 6 :p.25), Irgens (beginning in Bergen, Norway, in 1883, however with out success), 6 :p.25-26 Italy (where FIAT began in 1899), and as far afield as Australia (the place Pioneer set up shop in 1898, with an already archaic paraffin -fuelled centre-pivot-steered wagon).

The primary production of automobiles was by Karl Benz in 1888 in Germany and, under license from Benz, in France by Emile Roger There have been numerous others, together with tricycle builders Rudolf Egg , Edward Butler , and Léon Bollée 6 :p.20-23 Bollée, using a 650 cc (40 cu in ) engine of …