Founding a lasting legacy; Armand Peugeot (1849-1915).(News)

Automotive News Europe,  December, 2002  

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The car venture that Armand Peugeot created in 1895 has one remarkable characteristic: the staying power of its founding family. Of all the family businesses that built four-wheel boxes powered by steam or oil engines in the late 19th century, the Peugeots have been around the longest. Fiat's Agnelli dynasty arrived in 1899, the Fords in 1905, and the Toyodas in 1935.

Armand Peugeot was born to a family of industrialists in eastern France. Since 1810, the family had manufactured practical goods ranging from corset bones and coffee grinders to spectacle frames and carts. After ...

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