In 1990, the company celebrated its centenary as an automotive company. But the adventurous history of Peugeot began much earlier: its first period was the era of pioneers, which around 1810 was marked by the opening of the first metalworking factory, followed by the production of tools and amazing success with bicycles.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, automobiles appeared on the scene. Peugeot becomes famous as one of the founding members of the automaker's shop and immediately wins the sympathy of many thanks to the amazing feats of intrepid young men driving horseless carriages. So humanity enters the era of speed.
After the First World War, the now mature car enters the modern era: from a handicraft manufacturer, Peugeot is transformed into a real industrial enterprise. Peugeot continues to amaze the imagination on the racetrack and makes the dream of owning a car a daily reality for many people.
However, clouds are gathering, a second global conflict is approaching. These times are destined to become an era of limitations. In the dark years, Peugeot participates in the Resistance. With freedom once again triumphant, Peugeot survives in a changed world, and history continues.
In the atmosphere of a demographic boom and post-war optimism, a new Europe arose, inclined towards consolidation and discovering consumerism. This is an era of progress and prosperity. Therefore, Peugeot becomes one of the world leaders in the automotive industry and provides cars for millions of people around the world.
The era of pioneers.
The Peugeot brothers come from a family of flour millers who lived near Montbéliard in the French department of Oak. In 1810 these young men came up with the idea of turning their mill into a metalworking factory and began supplying springs to local watchmakers.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the steam engine and carriages without horses were invented in England. These strange vehicles resemble horse-drawn carriages, but with one slight difference: they are driven by ingenious machines. From this era came to us the concept of "horsepower", used to this day to determine the power of the engine.
Between 1824 and 1882 new Peugeot factories, products diversify: springs, tools, mechanisms for making corsets, coffee grinders (1840) and Sewing machines (1867).
Around 1860, the engine is born internal combustion. At first, it works on a gas-air mixture that explodes alternately from different sides inside the cylinder, causing the piston to move back and forth. The fuel is ignited by a spark plug (a Lenoir engine fitted to a small car in 1863).
1876: German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Nikolaus Otto develop a four-stroke internal combustion engine.
AT 1882 The first bicycles appear that use wheels of different sizes (1.86 m front, 0.40 m rear). The production of Peugeot bicycles is rapidly gaining momentum.
AT 1884 Frenchman Edouard Delamare-Deboutville presents the first car. In 1886, Karl Benz creates a gasoline three-wheeled car that can reach an incredible speed - 15 km / h. This is the first real car. Frenchman Emile Levassor becomes the exclusive distributor of Daimler engines in France. He supplies them to manufacturers such as Panhard-Levassor and Peugeot.
AT 1889 year at the World Exhibition in Paris, the main attraction is the three-wheeled car "Serpollet-Peugeot" ("Serpolette-Peugeot"). But already at the beginning of next year, Peugeot masters the internal combustion engine and begins to produce a four-wheeled car with a Daimler engine.
The car is coming into use, but the main form of mechanical transport is still the bicycle. Peugeot - the largest manufacturer of this two-wheeled vehicle - is included in sports: in 1891 one of the first Peugeot Type 3 four-wheeled bicycles takes part in the first bicycle race from Paris to Brest and covers 2100 kilometers in 139 hours!
AT 1892 Peugeot produces 29 Type-3 quads in a year. For the bey of Tunisia, a unique model is created, called "Type-4", decorated with traditional Tunisian ornaments.
AT 1894 In the same year, a journalist from the French Petit Journal organizes a "competition of carts without horses, which are set in motion by mechanical force." The total number of participants is 21, Peugeot puts up six cars for the competition. As a result, Peugeot and Panhard-Levassor shared the first place.
Peugeot excelled again the following year by winning the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race, the first ever time trial car race. However, history will perpetuate the fact that the Peugeot, nicknamed "L'Eclair" (literally - "lightning" because of the machine's tendency to zigzag), first used pneumatic car tires delivered by the Michelin brothers.
AT 1896 In the year Armand Peugeot created the Peugeot Automobile Society (Societe des Automobiles Peugeot) in Oudencourt. In the same year, Baron Julien's car disappears from the garage, this event was the first car theft in history - a Peugeot car!
1898: The prefect of Paris, Louis Lépin, introduces the first rules governing car traffic, and sets a speed limit of 12 km/h.
In Italy in 1899 Giovanni Agnelli creates the FIAT company.
At the turn of the century, Peugeot becomes a major automobile manufacturer: in 1899, the Peugeot catalog includes 15 models, from 2-seater to 12-seater cars. AT 1900 500 cars and 20,000 bicycles were produced.
1902: Birth of Cadillac in the USA.
1903: The Paris-Madrid race has been abandoned in Bordeaux after an accident that killed several drivers and spectators. It will take a few years for the young motorsport to recover from this first tragedy.
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Add commentsAs well as special purpose vehicles. Bicycles, motorcycles and engines of this brand are quite in demand. The history of Peugeot dates back to the 18th century. Initially, the family business was limited to the production of various steel products.
The beginning of the Peugeot enterprise was distinguished by the release of watch springs and saw blades. Then the assortment expanded and the brothers began to produce more advanced and complex products for that time: coffee grinders, tools, spice grinders, irons, sewing machines, umbrellas. By the eighties of the last century, the family business had already grown into a fairly large enterprise operating in the French metalworking industry. In the same period, the products of this brand are already exported to several countries.
the invention of the bicycle
In 1882, the Peugeot company released the Le Grand-Bi bicycle. This was the first experience of the organization in the production of vehicles. Initially, only the production of spokes for bicycle wheels was launched, and then, on the initiative of Armand Peugeot, the grandson of the founder of the company, who is fond of cycling, the serial production of bicycles began. They were chain driven.
The first products were distinguished by wheels of different sizes. The front was 1.86 m, and the rear was 0.4 m. Gradually, the release of such a promising transport was gaining momentum. Quite quickly, Peugeot becomes the leading bicycle manufacturer in France. And in our time the situation does not change.
Le Grand-Bi is Peugeot's first bicycle, produced in 1882. Milestones of development
Peugeot has a history of more than 120 years. After mastering the bicycle market, the enterprise began to mass-produce mopeds, motorcycles, and scooters.
The history of the Peugeot brand regarding the automotive industry begins with the release of a three-wheeled steam engine Serpolette Peugeot. But such an experience was considered not entirely successful, and after that the steam structures were no longer produced.
In 1891, a four-wheeled car was produced. The motor in such a car was from Daimler. In the same period, the name of the company changes to Les fils de Peugeot frères. In 1896, the Peugeot enterprise produced its own engine, and the company ceased to depend on anyone else.
The most significant and high-profile event in the history of the company was the release of Peugeot Crumbs. So the people called the inexpensive single-cylinder car Peugeot Bebe. This car was designed for the poor middle class.
Prior to the First World War, France was a leader in the production of automobiles. And half of all products were from Peugeot. And this means that the brand's products during this period took 1st place in the world. Before the start of the war, the organization began to introduce the method of conveyor production of cars.
At the end of the XIX and at the beginning of the XX centuries, more and more new car models. In 1923, the number of produced cars already exceeds 10 thousand units. The thirties were marked by the appearance on Peugeot cars of an electric awning lift and an independent front suspension.
The Second World War destroyed many of the company's production facilities, and it was only in 1949 that work could be established.
Peugeot has been buying Citroen shares since 1974. Subsequently, one company, Peugeot Societe Anonyme (PSA), was created. However, both brands were retained.
Peugeot also controlled brand Maserati and headed the European division of Chrysler in 1978.
The modern concern is the largest private enterprise and is in 2nd place in Europe in the production of cars. During 2012, the volume of production of cars exceeded 3 million units, and in total, more than 1.6 million cars were released under the Peugeot brand.
Company `s logo
Like any other automotive company, Peugeot has its own logo. Despite everything, for more than 120 years, the original heraldic French lion will remain unchanged.
The first vehicle, produced in 1882, had an emblem in the form of a lion turned to the left with a royal crown. This symbolism was not chosen by chance. The province in France, from which the founder of Peugeot was from, has a lion on its coat of arms.
The direction of the lion has never changed for 120 years. But the figure itself has undergone many changes. In 1891, the crown disappeared, and the torso and mane increased in size. The color of the lion was changed from black and white to gold, which is a symbol of wealth, luxury and success.
For the period 1912–1920. the logo was devoid of the image of a lion. However, after World War I, the lion reappeared. Its dimensions appearance and the background color changed many times. The last evolution of the emblem took place in 2000. The beast became convex, and under the figure of a lion, the name of the Peugeot brand is applied. The animal is depicted on a dark or black background. In some exceptional cases, the substrate may be red.
Facts from history
The history of the creation of the Peugeot brand is fraught with many interesting facts. For example, the Peugeot car was equipped with the first in the world. And in 1892, the Bey of Algiers ordered to produce for himself in a single copy a car with a body made of pure cast silver.
In 1941, Peugeot designers created a lightweight vehicle to move around the city. It was a three-wheeled electric cycle.
In many popular films, Peugeot cars were lit up. For example, the car of the famous inspector Colombo and a taxi from a series of films from Luc Besson. Among Russian stars, Peugeot Anton Makarsky, Alena Apina and others prefer.
At European competitions, Peugeot cars have repeatedly won prizes. Concern PSA in the London quarter of Soho has opened its own museum, which contains more than 150 cars.
Peugeot in sports
Quite successful is the direction of production high-speed cars Peugeot. In the automobile race Paris - Rouen in 1894, the Peugeot car took second place. Also, many victories were won in Austria, Germany, France.
The nineties are significant in that Peugeot cars won victories in the world championship.
Key models of the brand
Peugeot designers gave the world a lot of cars. Some of them left a particularly vivid mark in history:
- At the very beginning of the 20th century, Peugeot Bebe enjoyed well-deserved popularity. And in 1913, the fastest car for its time, the Peugeot Goux, was introduced to the world. He was able to reach speeds of 187 km / h.
- The 1930s and 1940s brought the 302 and 402 to the world. They had a classic construction and elegant design.
- In 1957, the Peugeot 404 was produced, which is considered the "eternal" car. It has several modifications. Until 1975, a total of 1.4 million units were produced.
- The Peugeot 205, which has small dimensions, has become a kind of legend in the automotive industry and received popular love.
- Release of the popular compact car- Peugeot 106.
- And in 1996 it was released Partner model. real car was produced in quantities of more than 1 million units in just 33 months.
- In the entire history of the Peugeot company, it was the Peugeot 206 that became the absolute leader in sales. In total, more than 5 million cars rolled off the assembly line.
- In 2001, the Peugeot 307 was introduced to consumers. It was recognized as the best car in the world in 2002.
Peugeot in Russia
On the Russian market Peugeot is deservedly considered a patriarch, because bicycles of this brand were delivered to Russia at the end of the 19th century.
The Peugeot brand is very popular in Russia. Many models exported to our country have been specially designed for our bad roads. The Peugeot brand is in the top ten best-selling cars in the Russian Federation.
Summing up, we can say that today the Peugeot company produces comfortable, reliable and adapted cars for Russia. Its specialists continue to improve their designs further. They use new production technologies for this and try to create even more advanced vehicles.
PSA - Peugeot Citroen - headquartered in Paris, France.
The history of Peugeot as an automobile company goes back to the distant 19th century.
"Brothers and sons Peugeot" - a family company engaged in the middle of the century before last, the production of hardware, parts for horse carriages, bicycles. Armand Peugeot ignited the idea of the automotive industry after meeting the notorious Gottlieb Daimler.
1889 - The first steam-powered Peugeot saw the light of day.
In 1891 - the first Peugeot with a Daimler gasoline engine.
1895 - 72 Peugeots were produced and sold.
1896 - the foundation of the Peugeot Automobile Society.
1899 Car production grows, and Peugeot sells more than 300 copies.
At the beginning of the 20th century, an outstanding designer and engineer E. Bugatti worked in Peugeot, and the cheap Bebe Peugeot (“Baby Peugeot”) was put into production.
Bebe Peugeot Peugeot is the first company in Europe to start conveyor assembly of cars.
In 1915, after the death of Armand Peugeot, other family members continue his work. During World War I, the history of the Peugeot company continues with the production of almost all types of weapons, the company becomes the main supplier for the French army. Bellanger and De Dion-Bouton join the firm's business. The company is focusing on issuing cheap cars, designed for buyers with an average income.
Peugeot 201 1929 the company produces the most cheap car for the French market - Peugeot 201. The main models of the 30s of the XX century were: Peugeot 202, Peugeot 302 and Peugeot 402.
During the Second World War, the Peugeot company came under the control of the German concern Volkswagen.
At the end of the war, the history of Peugeot as a manufacturer cars continues. Production begins in 1946 and the company produces pre-war models.
Peugeot 203 1948 - the premiere of the first post-war model Peugeot 203.
1958 - Peugeot cars are sold in the USA.
European automotive market continued to grow year by year, the Peugeot company released new product after new product. Appeared "beauty" Peugeot 504 Coupe. High competition has led the French to the need for joint development of new engines, components and assemblies - cooperation has begun with Renault and Volvo.
Peugeot 504 coupe Peugeot bought a 30% stake in 1974 French Citroen, and a year later in 1975 it completely absorbed the company. As a result, the PSA Peugeot Citroen concern is created.
In the early 1980s, PSA fell on hard times, with sales sluggish and profits falling.
1983 - the appearance of the Peugeot 205 - the car saved the auto giant from collapse, its successful sales allowed PSA to stay afloat and reorganize.
Peugeot 205 1984 Opening of a joint venture in China (Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën Automobile).
1991 - Peugeot withdraws from the North American market.
In the early 90s, the history of Peugeot continues with the release of a wide range of passenger cars: Peugeot 106, Peugeot 205, Peugeot 309, Peugeot 405, Peugeot 605, Peugeot 806.
Peugeot 405 The French concern Peugeot entered the 21st century with a confident step. The company cooperates in terms of technical development with Fiat, Ford, Renault, Toyota, BMW, Mitsubishi, GM. The production of cars of the French concern PSA is located in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, China, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and a number of other countries. In Russia, together with Mitsubishi PSA Peugeot Citroen, it produces cars at a car plant in Kaluga.
Peugeot 307 Peugeot cars have won the European Car of the Year competition three times:
1969 - Peugeot 504
1988 - Peugeot 405 model
2002 - Peugeot 307 model
Sporting success Peugeot is no less significant for the company. Sports history of the Peugeot company: participation in the WRC, 24 hours in Le Mans and of course the Paris-Dakar rally, Peugeot car reviews note that the company's cars have become winners for four years in a row, from 1987 to 1990.
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Early history
The company was founded in 1810 and initially produced coffee grinders and bicycles. In 1858, the image of a lion was chosen as the emblem of the trademark.
The first car of the company is an unreliable steam tricycle, created by Armand Peugeot in 1889. A year later, it was installed Gas engine Panhard-Daimler with a three-speed gearbox. But due to intra-family disagreements, Armand Peugeot separated from the family business and created the Société des Automobiles Peugeot in 1896.
In 1896, the first Peugeot engines appeared. The first engine was a two-cylinder, with horizontally arranged cylinders and had a power of 8 Horse power. It was installed on the back of the car, which had the name 15. Gradually, Peugeot products began to look like a modern car.
The engine moved under the front hood on the Model 48, the steering wheel appeared on the Model 36. In 1901, Peugeot showed a Bébé single-cylinder car with an engine of only 5 hp, and six years later he was already able to produce a car with a six-cylinder engine.
Years between the wars
After the war, automobile production resumed in earnest. In addition, the company's cars actively participated in races. New Peugeot 201, produced in 1929, was very popular because of its affordable price. For the first time on this model, a modern way of naming models appeared.
In 1934, Peugeot released the 402 BL Éclipse Décapotable, the first convertible with a retractable hardtop. Soon the related Peugeot 202, Peugeot 302 were released. The production of these models, curtailed due to the war, was resumed from the middle of 1946.
After the war
In 1947, Peugeot 203 went on sale with coil spring suspension, rack and pinion steering and hydraulic brakes. The car was in record demand.
In the next decade, the Peugeot 403 appeared, subsequently sold in more than a million copies. The company began selling products in the United States in 1958, good demand in 1960, the Peugeot 404 model was used, on which the forced engine from the 403 model was installed.
Several Peugeot models were produced in Australia, starting with the 203 in 1953. These were followed by the 403, 404 and 504 models from Australian assembly, and ended with the 505 in the early 1980s.
Acquisition of Citroen and Chrysler Europe
Mid-seventies - Peugeot, with the support of the French government, acquired the bankrupt company Citroën. And in 1978, Peugeot bought the European division of Chrysler, also desperately in debt.
1980s and 1990s
In 1983, the highly successful Peugeot 205 went on sale. The car sold so well that it became the best-selling car in France and was very popular in other parts of Europe, including the UK, where sales regularly exceeded 50,000 a year by the late 1980s. The joint venture in China produced the Peugeot 504 and 505 between 1985 and 1997.
The 405 sedan was released in 1987 and was very popular car throughout Europe and continued to be in demand in Africa and Asia even after it was replaced by the 406 almost a decade later. However, the car was not a success in the USA.
2000 onwards
Minivan Peugeot Partner Tepee
In addition, the company produces a wide range commercial vehicles in the form factor of a minibus.