Puegeot

I drive a French Puegeot. I was wondering what involment that manufacturing company had in WW1 aviation?

[mike_baram]

The Peugeot website (www.peugeot.com) only mentions the following:
"The First World War and the mobilisation of industry forcing factories to devote their resources to the war effort, put an end to new projects."

The French can be sort of restrained. I read an article in Smithsonian about the clean up of the live shells still in the battle fields of WW1 and it was like it's never to be mentioned. I guess they have better things to do than go into detail.

[joegertler]

They built a variety of aero engines in 1913 and 1914. And Peugeot built an DOHC 8 cyl. vee-eight of 691 cubic inches reported to put out 200-230 hp @ 2000rpm. It was a whopping 882 lbs though.Rossel-Peugeot built 4 cyl. in-line water-cooled 100hp and seven cyl. air-cooled rotaries of 30, 40 & 50 hp. doubt if they were used much in the war. Possibly in some trainers. Used to have a list of what they were in. But it isn't handy. Right after the war, they were building 16 cyl v-8s of 440 hp that looked similar to a tandem Hisso. Then they tried a 16 cyl "X" shaped radial of 500hp and a 550 hp V-12. After that they went to building two-cycle Junkers types.
In Germany,OPEL built some Argus aero engines of the Mercedes "type" in Germany.
For France Auto makers like Panhard, Renault, Hispano-Suiza built a lot of aero engines.

Peugeot NOT Pue........
Kept my first one (504)for 17 years and the second (505- runs evey day) coming up on 17 years. Excellent cars, poor company PR and support. Left U.S. in 1990/1991.
Renault designed or sponsored racing planes between the wars. I remember the Reault Caudron, a sleek low wing with an inline engine.