10 January – American-born Birt Acres demonstrates his film projector, the Kineopticon, the first in Britain, to the Lyonsdown Photographic Club in New Barnet, the first film show to an audience in the U.K.[3]
Engineer Walter Arnold of the Arnold (automobile) company of East Peckham in Kent receives the U.K.'s first speeding conviction for travelling at 8mph (13km/h) in a motorised vehicle, thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit for towns of 2mph (3.2km/h).[6]
6 April – the Snowdon Mountain Railway commences public operation; however, a derailment leading to one fatality causes services to be suspended for a year.[9]
14 November – the Locomotives on Highways Act (of 14 August)[15] comes into effect, raising the speed limit for road vehicles from 4 to 14mph[12] and removing the requirement for a man to walk in front of an automobile to give warning. To celebrate this, an 'Emancipation Run' of cars from London to Brighton (continuing afterwards as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run) is held.[16] By this date, Thomas Humber's car factory in Coventry has become the first in Britain to begin series production.[17]
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