Peugeot Type 21
# Peugeot Type 21

The Peugeot Type 21 is an early motor vehicle produced between 1898 and 1901 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant. Nine were produced.

The vehicle was powered by a rear-mounted two-cylinder four-stroke engine, manufactured by Peugeot themselves. The two cylinders were configured in parallel rather than in the V-format used in the first Petrol driven Peugeot, and above the rear axle to which it was linked by a chain-drive. A maximum output of between 5 and 8 hp (6 kW) of power was delivered to the rear wheels via a chain-drive mechanism.

The vehicle closely followed the format of the Peugeot Type 24 which appeared in the same year, but the wheelbase was extended from 1,380 mm (54.3 in) to 1,650 mm (65.0 in), which supported a vehicle length of 2,600 mm (102.4 in). The Type 21 featured a carriage format coupé body designed to accommodate up to four people. At that time a "coupé" automobile was broadly similar to a closed two-door carriage but without the horses. Whereas it would not be completely correct to refer it as a coupé, the design was indeed a "berline" body work as in horse drawn carriages. This marks the Type 21 to be the first motorized ICE brougham in the world. In the years to come, this design would evolve to become popular especially in the electrics and doctor coupés.

In 1900 Peugeot added the little Type 31 and Type 30 to their range. The Type 30 could be seen as an open-topped version of the Type 21. However, whereas only 9 Peugeot Type 21s were produced, the Type 30 reached a production level of 84 during a model life of approximately two years which coincided with a period of rapid expansion for the French auto industry taken as a whole.

## Sources and further reading

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

vtePeugeot road vehicle timeline, 1889–1944 — next » :

Type

1890s

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

9

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01234

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

56

58

126

201

202

Small family car

14 / 15 / 25

56

58

68

VA/VC/VY¹

V2C/V2Y¹

VD/VD2¹

159

163

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

43/44

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

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

$^1$ 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. :

