This era covers the very first ten years since the first European contest of 1894.
These years are characterised by different engine types, such as mainly T-head and L-head engines. The first single-cylinder Benz engine powering the many French cars around 1900. The Pipe and Welch hemi-head engines in 1905 and the Maudsley overhead valve engine in 1906, were merely precursors to their later offspring just before the war.
   The first sans-cheveaux’s of the city-to-city races are covered, as well as the race cars and motors in the Pre-war classics, such as the Gordon Bennett and the Vanderbilt Cup races. The Grand Prix racers and engines from 1906 on till the war, in which Renault, Peugeot and Mercedes cars appeared, as well as their American counterparts such as Frontenac and Stutz. 
Here, articles are arranged mainly by the specific magazines, within which theyears are sequenced.
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