Serpollet steam tricycle
The Serpollet steam tricycle is one of the first industrially manufactured motor vehicles . It was manufactured by the automobile pioneer Léon Serpollet , his brother and the entrepreneur Larsonneau in 1886 in the Société des Moteurs Serpollet frères et Cie in Paris, which they founded . The tricycle had an oil-fired Serpollet boiler and a steam engine with two cylinders , poppet valves and a crankcase, which was quite advanced for the time .
The Serpollet steam tricycle had four to six horsepower with its two cylinders. It reached a maximum speed of 25 km / h.
In automotive history, this design is also known as the Peugeot Type 1 because the Peugeot brothers built the car under license in 1889 - as their first car. But they quickly switched to internal combustion engines.
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- René Bellu: Toutes les Peugeot: des origines aux années 80th Editions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-85922-025-9 . (French)
- Piero Casucci: Armand Peugeot. Automobilia Editore publishing house, 1988, ISBN 88-85880-01-0 (it.)