Peugeot is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis. The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and then bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Émile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark. Armand Peugeot built the company’s first car steam tricycle, in collaboration with Léon Serpollet in 1889; this was followed in 1890 by an internal combustion car with a Panhard-Daimler engine.
People posing with their Peugeot automobiles
Peugeot has received many international awards for its vehicles, including six European Car of the Year awards.
Peugeot has been involved successfully in motorsport for more than a century, including victories at the Indianapolis 500 in 1913, 1916, and 1919. Peugeot Sport won the World Rally Championship five times (1985, 1986, 2000, 2001, 2002), the Dakar Rally seven times (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2016, 2017, 2018), the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (1992, 1993, 2009), the World Endurance Championship twice (1992, 1993), the Intercontinental Rally Challenge Championship three times, the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup twice (2010, 2011) and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb three times (1988, 1989, 2013).
Here below is a set of vintage photos from Vintage Cars & People that shows people posing with their Peugeot automobiles from between the 1920s and 1950s.
A lady in a fur-collared coat posing with a Peugeot Type 177 M Cabriolet on a dirt road in the countryside, somewhere in France, circa 1928
A young lady wearing a 3/4 length skirt and silk stockings posing on the bumper of a Peugeot 301, circa 1930
A young lady wearing a dark skirt and a white blouse posing with a Peugeot 12 CV Six on a cobbled road. The car is registered in the French département of Rhône, circa 1930
Three generations of a Belgian middle-class family posing with a six-cylinder Peugeot 12 CV Six in the countryside, somewhere in Belgium, circa 1930
Four fashionable ladies enjoying a picnic in the countryside next to a Peugeot 201, registered in the French département of Nord, July 10, 1932
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