Panhard-Levassor
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Rene Panhard was employed by Jean-Louis Périn in a Paris firm that produced wood-working machines, where he met Emile Levassor. (Before the 2 had started at the factory, Gottlieb Daimler had spent some time at the Périn band-saw factory in 1860).
After Périn's death, the two established their own firm, Panhard-Levassor, in 1887.
The company decided to move from making woodworking machines to automobiles.
c1890 Panhard et Levassor built their first car - this used a Daimler engine and was offered for sale.
1894 By the end of the year they had produced 350 Daimler motors and 90 motor cars. Peugeot had purchased 80 of these motors. [1]
The first car imported into England was a 4 hp Panhard and Levassor for Evelyn Ellis.
1899 Details of the Panhard light car. Engine by Krebs, one of their directors.[2]
1902 Details of their 70 h.p. Centaure four-cylinder engine for racing cars.[3]
1905 Produced 8-11 h.p., 15 h.p., 24 h.p., 35 h.p. and 50 h.p. (four and six-cylinder versions). British agent is Harvey Du Cros and London agent is J. E. Hutton. [4]
1906 Agents in UK: W. and G. Du Cros
1913 The French company was still advertising that it made Perin Band Saws (see advert)
1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices in the UK see the 1917 Red Book
1951 Exhibitor at the 1951 Motor Show in the Car Section.
1955 Citroën and Panhard entered into an agreement to partially merge their sales networks.
After assembling 2CV panel trucks for Citroën in order to utilize capacity in face of falling sales, and raising operating cash by selling ownership progressively to Citroën, respectively to its then mother company Michelin (full control as of 1965).
1965 Citroën took control of Panhard's factory in Rheims.
1967 The last Panhard passenger car was built. The civilian branch was absorbed by Citroën, and the marque was retired.
Since 1968 Panhard has only made armoured vehicles.[5]. Many of its military products end up on the civilian market via third sources and as military/government surplus vehicles.
After the 1974 takeover of Citroën by Peugeot, Panhard became part of PSA (Peugeot Société Anonyme).
2005 Panhard was acquired by Auverland
The company is now owned by Renault Trucks Defense. The combined company now uses the Panhard name; this was decided based on studies indicating that the Panhard name had better brand recognition worldwide than the Auverland name.
Early Registrations
- c1895 J 1895 3.75 hp
- 1897 T 60 6 hp
- 1898 ZZ 80 21 8 hp
- c1900 AL 68 16 hp
- 1900 8666 WQ 62 6 hp
- 1900 BJ 1721 6 hp
- 1902 AA 161 20 hp
- 1902 AR 247 7 hp
- 1902 AX 57 16 hp
- 1902 BS 8199 10 hp
- 1902 DS 6681 7 hp
- 1902 EA 941 7 hp
- 1902 F 643 16 hp
- 1902 FR 10 7 hp
- 1902 GL 123
- 1902 NOM 0655
- 1902 O 39
- 1902 P 2626
- 1902 99 VWC
- 1903 A 6639 10 hp
- 1903 AB 232 10 hp
- 1903 AE 10 10 hp
- 1903 AY 3400 10 hp
- 1903 BK 379 7 hp
- 1903 BL 749 15 hp
- 1903 M 18 15 hp
- 1903 OYM 340A 7 hp
- 1903 P 396 15 hp
- 1903 U 508 10 hp
- 1903 W 195 24 hp
- 1903 900 NOY 7 hp
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Early History of Motoring by Claude Johnson
- ↑ The Autocar 1899/05/06
- ↑ Automotor Journal 1902/06/07 p199
- ↑ The Automobile Vol. III. Edited by Paul N. Hasluck and published by Cassell and Co in 1906.
- ↑ Wikipedia