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Everything Ebykr holds on Peugeot: three articles, a Timeline of 41 dated events from 1810 to 2011 and 13 documents in the archive.
The history of Peugeot on Ebykr.
Cycles Peugeot from a Montbéliard steel foundry to 10 Tour de France titles: the family split over cars, the PX-10 and the checkerboard era.
Grouped by format, the most read first.
Date a vintage Peugeot by reading its model, frame, component codes and decals together; its serial number carries a date only from 1976.
A timeline of Cycles Peugeot from the family foundry of 1810 and the lion of 1858 through Le Grand Bi to its record 10 Tour de France victories.
Where Peugeot is named outside its own pages: 20 articles and 40 archive documents from nine other makers and four publications.
The articles that name Peugeot most often first.
…thoughtful design and meticulous construction, Automoto grew in popularity, came under Peugeot’s control in 1931 and was folded fully into the Peugeot group in 1962. Fancier Automoto bicycles—of which there…
…market presence in regions as far-reaching as South America. Though Automoto came under Peugeot's control in 1931 and the marque was retired in 1962, the legacy of Automoto survives through its striking commercial…
…operated out of the Saint-Étienne area during Mercier's active years. Major rivals like Peugeot and Gitane also operated in the region, creating a deep pool of skilled labor and strong tradition of bicycle…
…into other products like baby carriages and motorcycle side cars. War, Podium Glory and Peugeot Absorption · When World War Two tragically struck in 1939, Terrot factories turned their full attention to the French…
…Terrot is absorbed unceremoniously into Indenor, the diesel-engine subsidiary of Peugeot, which moves motorcycle production to the Automoto factory at Saint-Étienne in January 1959. 1961 · Production…
…including: Pope Manufacturing/Columbia (100,000+), Raleigh (60,000+), Schwinn (50,000+), Peugeot (40,000-50,000), BSA (30,000-40,000) and Adlerwerke/Adler (30,000+), with many other manufacturers making bikes around…
…bicycle market developing they hardly shrugged and turned away. Gitane (along with Peugeot and a few others) responded to the market's call for bicycles -- and with plenty of fresh capital in hand -- Gitane…
…Fuji is one of the friendliest classic lightweights you will ever try to date. Where a Peugeot shrugs and a Brooks keeps us guessing until the end of the 1950s, a Japanese-built Fuji of the 1970s and 1980s usually…
…markings are worth knowing. Competition brakes of the late 1970s can carry a Spidel or a Peugeot transfer, and Spidel-stamped Mafac levers belong to the same years. Griffith also reports that levers began to read…
…who wanted house-brand components, which included such respected marques as Peugeot, Hirondelle and Mercier. Yes, those Peugeot-branded parts on your trusty PX10 were probably made by Stronglight.
…shell or, on some 1970s lightweights, the outside of the left rear dropout. Unlike a Peugeot, for example, many post-1973 Raleighs carry a number that genuinely decodes. In the standardized system Raleigh…
…makers, see the Ebykr identification guides — how to identify and date a vintage Peugeot and how to identify and date a vintage Raleigh and how to identify and date a vintage Brooks saddle, with more to…
…bike framesets and parts. There were quite a few nice finds in the mix: A minty fresh Peugeot PX-10, a Carlton with Reynolds 531 tubing, and a newer Raleigh frame and fork. There was one frameset that really…
…see how to care for a Brooks saddle. And the rest of the Identify and Date series covers Peugeot, Raleigh and dating a bicycle by its components. Article Sources (Click to Expand)+ · Brooks catalogs 1890 through…
…1890 in France was a wonderful time and place for transportation breakthroughs. Armand Peugeot and Emile Levassor gave motorized four wheelers their first automobiles, while motorized two wheelers had Marquis…
…with every transfer reproduced. The marque guides lean on them: the Raleigh and Peugeot guides both read the tubing transfer as part of dating a frame, and the Tech Specs database lets you filter documented…
…aftermarket line as well as house-brand components for era manufacturers including Peugeot, Hirondelle and Mercier. 1985 · Industry Shift · A burgeoning Asian bicycle industry reached U.S. shores for the…
…a larger corporate structure. 1992 · Corporate Reorganization · Gitane merged with Peugeot and BH Cycles to form Cycleurope. Under the new arrangement Gitane found itself building bicycles branded as Peugeots…
…the Identify and Date series covers dating a bicycle by its components, Brooks saddles, Peugeot and Raleigh. Article Sources (Click to Expand)+ · Ebykr Advertisement Archive — Campagnolo advertisement…
…holds the deepest collector record, and the rest of the Identify and Date series covers Peugeot, Raleigh, the Brooks saddle and dating a bicycle by its components. Article Sources (Click to Expand)+ · Pierce…
Filed under other makers and publications whose words name Peugeot; the biggest share first.
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