In The United States

• some 9,000 automobiles are built in America this year, output is rising steadily
• Herbert Marble convicted for vehicular manslaughter in Connecticut
• Omaha bans autos from its park roads
• Louis S. Clarke, of Autocar, designs the porcelain spark plug insulator and patents double-reduction gearing for rear axles
• While attending Cornell University, Clarence W Spicer builds a car to test U-joints and shaft drive, leading to the formation of the Spicer Manufacturing Company
• The 112-member National Association of Automobile Manufactures adopts a 60-day guarantee for new automobiles
• T H Shevlin is fined $10 in Minneapolis for traveling more than 10 mph faster than the speed limit
• Motor Mart is established in New York City to buy and sell used cars
• A Chicago ordinance allows the driver to wear spectacles (but not eyeglasses)
• American Automobile Association is formed in Chicago to oversee racing
• A Pierce Motorette is victorious at the Automobile Club of America's endurance run
• Ford's "999" racing car sets a speed record: five miles in five minutes, 28 seconds
• A speeding car in Hackensack NJ spooked a horse pulling two men on a lawn mower. One man was seriously hurt and the other killed. This incident prompted the need for speed limits on roadways
• Max Grabowsky organizes Rapid Motor Vehicle Company to build one-ton trucks. This company was the beginning of GMC Trucks.
• The Apperson brothers leave Elwood Haynes to build cars of their own
• W K Vanderbilt Jr establishes a world record covering a kilometer in 29.67 seconds, an average speed of 122.4 kilometers per hour. He drove a Mors, a French make.
• Henry Ford and Alexander Y. Malcomson agree to develop a car

US Auto Makers

• Apperson - the Appersons brothers, formerly with Haynes, begin production of their own automobile
• Cadillac - the Detroit Automobile Company becomes Cadillac Automobile Company; the first complete car is built in October
• Electric Vehicle Company - granted right, by court decision, to make and use Sterling Elliott's steering knuckle
• Franklin and Holsman (a high wheeler built through 1910) make their debut. Franklin will become the best-known manufacturer of cars with air-cooled engines
• Locomobile - the 1st US gasoline automobile with a four-cylinder, front mounted, water-cooled engine
• Marmon Motor Company begins production again, with the French Darraq company supplying engines and chassis
• Northern - Jonathan Dixon Maxwell joins Charles Brady King to build the Silent Northern, which introduced an integral engine and transmission assembly, three-point suspension of power unit, and running boards; designs siphon cooling system which Benjamin and Frank Briscoe manufactured
• Pierce - (Buffalo) builds the first car named after a weapon, the Arrow
• Packard - the Packard firm changes its name from Ohio Automobile Company to Packard Motor Company; Packard patents the "H" gearshift slot pattern, which soon becomes commonplace
• Stevens-Duryea - J Stevens Arms & Tool Company begins manufactured of a two-cylinder car called the Stevens-Duryea, designed by J Frank Duryea
• Studebaker - Studebaker is now in production with electric cars
• Oldsmobile - builds over 2,000 vehicles

From Around the World

• Kaiser Wilhelm II, an auto fan after his carriage loses a race to one, offers a prize for the development of an automobile useable by farmers
• Dr. F W Lancaster of Birmingham England builds experimental disc brakes
• Influential German urban planner Herman-Joseph Stubbing recommends narrowing residential streets in new subdivisions to 2.5 meters to restrict traffic
• English inventor F R Simms builds a "Motor War Car" that carries a crew of four, two Maxim machine guns, and a Maxim pop-pop gun
• Leipzig, Germany, transit company places a red/green signal at a street intersection where two of its routes cross