Peugeot Type 1

The Serpollet steam tricycle is one of the first industrially manufactured motor vehicles. It was manufactured by the automotive pioneer Léon Serpollet, his brother and the entrepreneur Larsonneau 1886, founded by Société des Moteurs them Serpollet Frères et Cie in Paris. The tricycle had any oil-fired boiler and a Serpollet for that time quite advanced steam engine with two cylinders, disc valves and crankcase.

The steam tricycle of Serpollet pointed with his two cylinders at about 4-6 hp. It reached a maximum speed of 25 km / h

In the automotive history, this construction is also known as Peugeot Type 1 because the brothers Peugeot the car in 1889 - as their first car ever - built under license. And they went quickly over to internal combustion engines.

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