Word: peugeots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standard Ford is a relatively "big car" to Germany with its four-horsepower Opel, to Britain with its 7.8-horsepower Austen, to France with its five-horsepower Peugeot and Citroen...
Died. Pierre Peugeot, 58, French automobile manufacturer, president of the board of the Societé Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot, Mayor of Hérimoncourt; stricken suddenly in Paris...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...
Inventor Knight, prophet outcast at home, went to England, where the Daimler company of Coventry, was "sold" on the new motor. This was in 1908. Since then the Knight motor has become prized equipment for the Mercedes in Germany, the Panhard, Peugeot and Voisin in France, the Minerva in Belgium, the Russell-Knight in Canada...
...machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England, the Citroen and Baby Peugeot in France...