Email


A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z




Bookstore
Exercises

Wheel change
Save Energy
History
Formulary


Ganz neu ...

Ganz neu ...


France 1
France 2
France 3
France 4
France 5

Peugeot
History
1891-1918
1918-1945
1945-today

2015 Vision GT
2015 208
2015 Bipper
2014 2008 Castagna
2014 108
2014 308 SW
2014 Boxer
2013 208 GTI
2013 308
2013 2008
2012 208
2012 508 RXH
2011 508
2011 3008 Hybrid 4
2009 RCZ
2007 207 CC
2006 207
2004 407
2004 107
1993 106
1992 905
1987 205 GTI
1986 205 Cabrio
1986 309
1983 205
1979 505
1975 104 Break Prototype
1975 604
1972 104
1969 304
1968 504
1965 204
1965 J7
1962 404 Coupe
1960 404
1955 403
1950 203 C
1948 203
1939 202
1935 402
1934 301 D Coupe
1934 401 Eclipse
1932 183 D Cabrio
1932 301 Torpedo
1931 201
1929 190 S
1929 201 301
1923 Type 172
1923 Type 174
1922 Type 153
1921 Type 156
1920 Quadrilette
1913 Type 146
1913 Bebe
1908 Lion VC
1906 Type 78 A
1905 Quadricycle
1903 Type 56
1891 Vis A Vis



Peugeot - Diesel Tradition









This is the Peugeot 156, built between 1921-1923. It can be viewed immediately in the by the way very interesting Peugeot museum near the highway Mühlhausen - Beaune respectively Dijon. Why this Peugeot worthy of your attention? Actually, not so much because of its nearly 6-liter six-cylinder in valveless Knight construction.

No, this car is the 'carrier' of a first diesel test engine, the Peugeots claim to be at least the second oldest diesel passenger car manufacturer therewith justifies a little. The 156 was equipped experimentally with a two-cylinder two-stroke engine in 1922, and the Peugeot company justified their claim therewith to have worked on this technology for cars yet before Mercedes.

However, there are restrictions because Peugeot speaks of a heavy fuel engine with spark plug here. For this purpose, one must know that the start especially of the smaller diesel engines was anything but routine, if one can describe this as such at all. Mercedes has at least needed three attempts to offer such an engine 1936.

So we remain to designate this first motor as diesel. It has very soon passed its first practical test on the race Paris - Bordeaux and back with at least 70 km/h maximum speed. A total of 100 engines have been installed in 156 Torpedos.

One had finished the first real self-igniter with 2.3 liters displacement then in 1936, at least for the streamlined Peugeot 402. The had well proved successful in Africa, but it went not in production. Incidentally, the Mercedes 260 D was only reasonable for a taxi company.



Peugeot 403 D
EngineIn-line four-cylinder
Displacement (bore * stroke)1816 cm³ (85,0 mm * 80,0 mm
Crankshaftmounted fivefold
Engine controlohv
Mixture preparationSwirl chamber
Performance35 kW (48 HP) at 4000 rpm
Year of manufactureFrom 1959

Here you see the first production diesel. One had chosen for this the estate car or better Break version. Also as a taxi the 'Indenor' called diesel engine was available from 1959. Its a bit rough engine running you can understand on the video below. Rapidly its availability was extended to all 403 variants with the exception of the convertible.



We can not complete this story without mentioning the 404, this time in a timeless pickup design. In 1965, with its technology in the modified convertible (pictured below) 40 international records were broken in Montlhery, including 72 hours with an average of more than 160 km/h. 03/15






cartecc.comImprintIndex