VETERAN CAR GUIDE
Peugeot Armand Peugeot, a successful cycle manufacturer, started experimenting with prototype motor cars in the late 1880s. Following contact with Gottlieb Daimler and Émile Levassor, he agreed to make cars with a Daimler concept engine made by Panhard et Levassor under licence. Throughout 1891 new versions were tested: each had rear-mounted V-twin engines and chain drive, tubular steel frames and tiller steering. By 1895, Peugeot had completed his testing and he decided to make his own engines. Tiring of the inertia of the family firm, he started SA des Automobiles Peugeot at Audincourt in 1897, then moved to Paris in 1900, hiring Louis Delage to run his drawing office in 1902. In the same year, Peugeot adopted front-mounted engines for all models but there was still a mixture of chain and shaft drive. The most popular Peugeot was the 652cc 5hp Type 54, and the biggest machine was the 18hp 3635cc Type 42.
Phoenix There are several marques known as Phoenix. The most well-known made a tricycle called Pheonix Trimo, powered by a Minerva engine.
Pierce George Norman Pierce was a successful businessman in Buffalo, New York, USA, who made a range of domestic goods and bicycles. Towards the end of 1901, he produced a batch of 25 Pierce Motorettes( called the Knockabout) with 2.75 single cylinder De Dion Bouton engines. The design was by an Englishman named David Fergusson who also created the Runabout in 1902, equipped with a 3.5hp De Dion Bouton engine. This was followed by a 5hp model whose engine was locally made in Detroit. Engines of 6.5hp and 8hp output quickly followed, and production continued until 1906.
Pope-Toledo One of Colonel Pope’ s enterprises was the International Bicycle Company in Toledo, Ohio, USA. It made two models of petrol-driven cars in 1904, a 14hp twin-cylinder and a 24hp four-cylinder. The latter vehicle won many races on the west coast of America, winning for itself the accolade‘ The Mile a Minute Car’. A Pope Toledo finished third in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup; the country’ s most important race at the time.
Pope-Tribune The Pope-Tribune company was part of the Pope empire founded by Colonel Albert Pope. The subsidiary was run by his son, Harold E. Pope, at the former bicycle factory in Hagerstown, Maryland. The marque offered smaller and cheaper vehicles
1904 Peugeot.
than others in the Pope range. For a small car it was unusual in having very advanced and high-quality features, such as modern shaft drive and sliding gear transmission at a time when even large cars had chain drive and planetary transmission. Over the four years following its introduction in 1904, the Pope Tribune grew steadily larger and more powerful, until it had priced and sized itself out of its original market.
Rambler Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Philip Gormully, made bicycles in Chicago in the 1890s. They also had a factory in Coventry, England. After the death of Gormully in 1900, Jeffery and his son bought a large factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They produced the Model C with a single-cylinder engine under the seat and single chain drive, and automatic advance and retard. In 1902, 1500 sold at $ 750 each. The singlecylinder continued until 1905 with increased engine size and extended wheelbase, and twin-cylinder cars were available in 1904, when 3342 were produced.
Raynaud Based in Flayosc in the Southern Var region of France, roughly 40 miles inland from St Tropez, between Marseille and Cannes, Claude Raynaud ran an electric engineering business. The Raynaud may well be the only car of its kind because it is believed that Mr Raynaud’ s vehicle was intended for his own personal use. It is not known whether Raynaud’ s plan would have been to further expand his collection or in turn expand it into a business venture. The surviving vehicle, dated to 1896, has a twin cylinder, horizontal engine of 3800cc.
Renault Louis Renault set up a small workshop behind his family home in Billancourt, Paris, where he produced his first vehicle, the Type A, in 1899. Its wheelbase was one metre, and it featured a tubular frame and a
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