To answer that question, we first need to go all the way back to 1810 – a whole lifetime before the car was invented – when a family named Peugeot established a steel foundry in eastern France. Some six decades later, an ambitious son, Armand, undertook an engineering placement in Leeds, England, where he witnessed the birth of bicycles and tricycles – or vélocipèdes as he called them.
To answer that question, we first need to go all the way back to 1810 – a whole lifetime before the car was invented – when a family named Peugeot established a steel foundry in eastern France.
Some six decades later, an ambitious son, Armand, undertook an engineering placement in Leeds, England, where he witnessed the birth of bicycles and tricycles – or vélocipèdes as he called them.
He returned home in 1871 and by 1885 had convinced his family to enter this exciting new industry.
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To answer that question, we first need to go all the way back to 1810 – a whole lifetime before the car was invented – when a family named Peugeot established a steel foundry in eastern France. Some six decades later, an ambitious son, Armand, undertook an engineering placement in Leeds, England, where he witnessed the birth of bicycles and tricycles – or vélocipèdes as he called them. He returned home in 1871 and by 1885 had convinced his family to enter this exciting new industry.
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