Peugeot Type 68
# Peugeot Type 68

The Peugeot Type 68 is an early motor car that the French auto-maker Peugeot produced at their Audincourt plant during 1905. 276 were produced.

Three different version of the Type 68 were listed. A single-cylinder 883 cc four-stroke engine, mounted ahead of the driver, propelled the Type 68A and Type 68B. The rear wheels received a maximum of 8 hp via a rotating drive-shaft. The Type 68C was similarly powered except that the single-cylinder engine had a capacity of 987 cc.

The car had a 2,000 mm (78.7 in) wheelbase. The open carriage Tonneau format body offered space for four as did the covered carriage format Phaeton / Torpedo bodied version. In retrospect the car can be seen as Peugeot’s first Torpedo bodied car, although the classification is anachronistic since the term “Torpedo” to describe a car body was coined only in 1908. Buyers opting for the larger engined Type 68C had the chance to specify a racing car body.

## Sources and further reading

* Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Alle Peugeot Automobile 1890-1990. Motorbuch-Verlag. Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-613-01351-7

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Supermini

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2

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21 / 24 / 30 / 31

37

54

57

69 "Bébé"

B P1/ B3/P1 "Bébé"¹

161/172 "Quadrilette"

5CV

190

26 / 27 / 28

48

56

58

126

201

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Small family car

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56

58

68

VA/VC/VY¹

V2C/V2Y¹

VD/VD2¹

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301

302

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63

99

108

118

125

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Family car

9 / 10 / 11 / 12

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49/50

65/67

77

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88

127

143

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153 B/BR

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401

402

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39

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61

71

81

96

106

116

126

138

175

601

Large family car

23

42

62

72

82

92

104

112/117/ 122/130/134

139

145/146/148

174

66

76

83

93

135

156

184

Executive car

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103

113

141

147/150

85

95

105

Cabriolet / Spider

91

101/120

133 / 111/129/131

136

144

Panel van

13

22

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Minibus

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107

$^1$ These cars were marketed as "Lion-Peugeots", produced by what was till 1910 a separate Peugeot company, run by cousins of Armand Peugeot, then in charge of the principal automobile business.

In 1910, Armand having no sons of his own, it was agreed that the two branches of the Peugeot business be reunited. :

