Peugeot Type 3

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Peugeot Type 3
Manufacturer	S. A. des Automobiles Peugeot
Production	1891-1894 64 produced
Predecessor	Peugeot Type 2
Successor	Peugeot Type 4
Body style(s)	Runabout
Layout	RR layout
Engine(s)	565 cc V-twin 2 hp @ 1000 rpm
Wheelbase	1.63 metres (64 in)
Designer	Armand Peugeot

The Peugeot Type 3 was a very early French automobile, and was Peugeot's first model to be sold to the public and made in meaningful quantities. It was Peugeot's second internal combustion-engined car.

[edit] Background

The earliest Peugeot model from 1889 had been steam-powered tricycles built under collaboration with Léon Serpollet. In 1890, Armand Peugeot met with contemporary trailblazers of car technology, Gottlieb Daimler and Emile Levassor, and became convinced that reliable, practical, and lightweight vehicles would have to be powered by petrol and have four wheels. The Type 2 was the first such model. Peugeot's one-time partner Serpollet would persevere with steam technology with continued success under the marque Gardner-Serpollet until his death in 1907.

[edit] Performance

The engine was a German design by Daimler, but was licensed for production in France by Panhard et Levassor and then sold to Peugeot. It was a 15° V-twin and produced 2 bhp, sufficient for a top speed of approximately 18 kilometres per hour (11 mph).

In its inaugural year of 1891, Armand Peugeot decided to show the robustness of his car by taking it alongside the Paris-Brest cycle race. This demonstration car ultimately survived a total of 14,710 kilometres (9,140 mi) without major malfunctions, something of a miraculous achievement with contemporary mechanics, and later became the first Peugeot sold to the public. A somewhat lightened Type 3 was entered into an 1895 race from Paris to Bordeaux and back, winning and maintaining an average speed of 21.5 kilometres per hour (13.4 mph). This story was related by Chris Goffey in a Top Gear episode from 1989, when showing early examples of Peugeot durability.

[edit] References

• Peugeot Car Models from 1889-1909
• Company History of the Type 3
• Histomobile

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Type	1880s	1890s										1900s										1910s										1920s										1930s										1940s
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Supermini	1	2	3 / 4			5 / 6 / 7 / 8				21 / 24 / 30 / 31				37	54	57	69 "Bébé"								B P1/ B3/P1 "Bébé"¹								161/172 "Quadrilette"				5CV			190
											26 / 27 / 28				48							126																			201									202
Small family car									14 / 15 / 25						56	58	68	VA/VC/VY¹				V2C/V2Y¹			VD/VD2¹						159	163 / 163 BS												301				302
													33 / 36			63			99	108	118	125													173 / 177/ 181/ 183
Family car						9 / 10 / 11 / 12				16 / 17 / 19 / 32				49/50		65/67	77	78	88			127		143		153						153 B/BR					176									401				402
								18						39		61	71	81	96	106	116	126	138												175
Large family car										23					42/43/44	62	72	82	92	104	112/117/ 122/130/134		139		145/146/148										174 / 184											601
																66	76	83	93				135									156
Executive car																		80	103		113		141			147/150
																		85	95	105
Cabriolet / Spider																		91		101/120		133 / 111/129/131	136			144
Panel van							13			22			34/35
Minibus									20 / 29											107
1: marketed as "Lion-Peugeot"