Peugeot Type 126
# Peugeot Type 126

The Peugeot Type 126 is an early motor car produced in 1910 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant. 350 were produced.

The vehicle was powered by a four-cylinder four-stroke 2,212 cc engine which was mounted ahead of the driver. A maximum 12 hp of power was delivered to the rear wheels by means of a rotating steel drive-shaft. The top speed quoted was 55 km/h (34 mph).

Instead of the four-cylinder engine, buyers could specify a single-cylinder 785 $cc^3$ engine. The engine was small for a middle-sized car: the resulting vehicle was underpowered and slow. However, the option enabled Peugeot to hold the car out as a replacement for the recently discontinued Peugeot Type 48. A Type 126 with an engine between these two extremes was not offered, possibly because it would, thus powered, have competed too directly with the manufacturer’s Type 125 or Type 127 model. The “Automobiles Peugeot” business under Armand Peugeot appears to have been concentrating new product investment in moving the range upmarket at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. This may have reflected an increasing pool of potential customers for larger cars after a decade of strong economic growth in France. However, there is also a view that Armand was keen to leave more space in the small-car market for his nephews’ Lion-Peugeot business, which in 1910 was formally reintegrated with Armand’s business into a single firm, thus reversing the Peugeot split of 1896.

The torpedo bodied Peugeot Type 126 offered space for four.

## 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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5 / 6 / 7 / 8

21 / 24 / 30 / 31

37

54

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69 "Bébé"

B P1/ B3/P1 "Bébé"¹

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5CV

190

26 / 27 / 28

48

56

58

126

201

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Small family car

14 / 15 / 25

56

58

68

VA/VC/VY¹

V2C/V2Y¹

VD/VD2¹

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163

301

302

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63

99

108

118

125

173 / 177 / 181 / 183

Family car

9 / 10 / 11 / 12

16 / 17 / 19 / 32

49/50

65/67

77

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88

127

143

153

153 B/BR

176

401

402

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39

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61

71

81

96

106

116

126

138

175

601

Large family car

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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

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22

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$^1$ 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. :

