# Lion-Peugeot Type VC3

The Lion-Peugeot Type VC3 was an early motor car produced near Valentigney by the French auto-maker Lion-Peugeot in 1911. 135 were produced.
The car was in many respects little changed from the Lion-Peugeot Type VC2 which it replaced. The Type VC3 retained a single cylinder 1,045 cm³ four stroke engine, mounted ahead of the driver. A maximum 9 hp of power was delivered to the rear wheels.
The wheelbase of 2,250 mm, supported a vehicle length of 3,320 mm, providing space for between two and four people depending on the body specified. With this model Lion-Peugeot followed a trend already observable among manufacturers of larger more expensive cars, offering a wide range of open and closed body types, including a Phaeton, a Torpedo, a Landaulet, a Limousine, a sports car and a small delivery van.

## Lion-Peugeot and Peugeot: the difference

“Lion-Peugeot” is the name under which in 1906 Robert Peugeot and his two brothers, independently of their cousin Armand’s "Automobiles Peugeot" company, established a car manufacturing business at Beaulieu near Vallentigny. Ten years earlier the automobile pioneer Armand Peugeot had split away from the family business after a long-standing disagreement over how intensively the company should diversify into larger scale automobile production. An agreement had at that time been entered into between Armand’s “Automobiles Peugeot” company and the residual Peugeot business that the residual business should concentrate on its established metal tools and components businesses along with its successful bicycle manufacturing activities, while Armand would have Peugeot branded powered vehicles to himself. During the ensuing ten years Armand’s automobile business had grown rapidly, although it appears that the residual Peugeot business had probably not entirely avoided producing powered vehicles. In any event, under a new agreement signed in 1905, the residual Peugeot business made Armand an annual payment in return for which Armand consented to the residual business itself producing motor cars under the “Lion-Peugeot” name. The arrangement continued until 1910 after which (the death of Robert Peugeot’s father Eugène having apparently removed a major impediment to the idea) the Lion-Peugeot business and the Peugeot automobiles business were merged into a single company. Nevertheless, some smaller models continued to be branded as “Lion-Peugeots” until 1916.

## Sources and further reading

* Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die große Automobil-Enzyklopädie, BLV, München 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
* Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Alle Peugeot Automobile 1890–1990, Motorbuch-Verlag. Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-613-01351-7
* ↑ Armand Peugeot and Robert’s father, Eugène Peugeot, were both great grand-sons of Jean-Pierre Peugeot jr (1768 - 1852), who himself was the son of the similarly named company founder Jean-Pierre Peugeot sr 1734 - 1814. Therefore Robert Peugeot and Armand Peugeot were second cousins once removed to one another.
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1940s
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Supermini
1
2
3 / 4
5 / 6 / 7 / 8
21 / 24 / 30 / 31
37
54
57
69 "Bébé"
B P1/ B3/P1 "Bébé"¹
161/172 "Quadrilette"
5CV
190
26 / 27 / 28
48
56
58
126
201
202
Small family car
14 / 15 / 25
56
58
68
VA/VC/VY¹
V2C/V2Y¹
VD/VD2¹
159
163
301
302
33 / 36
63
99
108
118
125
173 / 177 / 181 / 183
Family car
9 / 10 / 11 / 12
16 / 17 / 19 / 32
49/50
65/67
77
78
88
127
143
153
153 B/BR
176
401
402
18
39
43/44
61
71
81
96
106
116
126
138
175
601
Large family car
23
42
62
72
82
92
104
112/117/ 122/130/134
139
145/146/148
174
66
76
83
93
135
156
184
Executive car
80
103
113
141
147/150
85
95
105
Cabriolet / Spider
91
101/120
133 / 111/129/131
136
144
Panel van
13
22
34/35
Minibus
20 / 29
107
$^1$ These cars were marketed as "Lion-Peugeots", produced by what was till 1910 a separate Peugeot company, run by cousins of Armand Peugeot, then in charge of the principal automobile business.
In 1910, Armand having no sons of his own, it was agreed that the two branches of the Peugeot business be reunited. :