The Lanchester 8 hp Phaeton is a

brass era automobile The Brass Era is an American term for the early period of automotive manufacturing, named for the prominent brass fittings used during this time for such things as lights and radiators. It is generally considered to encompass 1896 through 1915 ...

Frederick W. Lanchester Frederick William Lanchester Doctorate of Law, LLD, Royal Aeronautical Society, Hon FRAeS, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an England, English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to au ...

, developed and built by the

Lanchester Motor Company The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer located until early 1931 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. The marque has been unused since the last Lanche ...

, produced between 1895 and 1900. It was notably the first production vehicle to be powered by a flat twin-cylinder engine.

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