Armand Peugeot

Armand Peugeot ( March 26, 1849 in Hérimoncourt at Montbéliard, † January 2, 1915 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) was a French businessman and founder of the eponymous French car manufacturer Peugeot.

Peugeot initially began with the building of bicycles and presented in 1889 at the World Exhibition in Paris, the first steam-powered tricycle and is considered a pioneer and visionary of automotive engineering.

The business activities of the Peugeot family can be traced to the 15th century. 1776 operated the Peugeot family in Herimoncourt a water mill and later opened an iron foundry, which formed the basis for the subsequent metal processing company. The operation presented next clock springs, boning and various tools such as saws and saw blades, metal later also produces iron and coffee grinders.

Armand Peugeot studied in England, where she learned to know the bike. He recognized the benefits and technical progress of the bike and started production this means of transport and makes it so that on the European continent known. Together with his brother Eugène Peugeot he set the velocipede in 1882 ago in the family's own workshop. Just seven years later, he produced 19,000 pieces and with the presentation at the Exposition Universelle de Paris, the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, the demand increased so much that in the same year he opened a shop in Paris.

1889 Armand Peugeot bought the Serpollet steam engines for its first motor vehicles.

Another year later Peugeot vehicles were equipped with engines of the automaker Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft. In 1891 he was one of those so-called steel wheel wagon at the wheel voyage Paris -Brest-Paris successfully participate. Peugeot then began to manufacture its own gasoline engines, making it the second oldest car manufacturer in the world. In 1891, Peugeot started the mass production of automobiles.

When he recognized the technical future of motorized vehicles, he founded in 1885 the Société des Automobiles Peugeot and Audi factory in Court. In 1906 the company merged with the Peugeot bicycle company for the Société des Automobiles Peugeot Cycles et. A new plant was opened in Sochaux- Montbéliard and Peugeot should now be next to passenger cars, buses and vans here.