Jul 27, 2024

PEUGEOT / SOCHAUX / FRANCE


PEUGEOT / SOCHAUX / FRANCE   (1896 - today)

It is a pleasure to collect Peugeot emblems. Because of their history of more than 120 years you  still have the chance to find a never seen Peugeot emblem. My collection started with Peugeot emblems in the seventies. Now I own about 40 different prewar Peugeot emblems. And there are a lot  more emblems if you also collect the younger emblems.

So I'll start with an advertisement from the 1960s when PEUGEOT had an assembly plant in Canada. Of course, sex sells, or how should we understand this liberal ad with ambiguous text? Nowadays such an ad would be unthinkable, PEUGEOT could close its assembly plant right away.....

 

Canadian advertisment of the nineteensixties


The PEUGEOT type 404 emblem to the left was the specific emblem for Argentine.   In Europe, it was only seen as an emblem on spare parts packaging






This is one of the oldest of my Peugeot emblems:

Size 6.8 cm x 11.6 cm
Year1912
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backside of an original emblem:  no makers mark



British advertisment showing the famous PEUGEOT badge





radiator with the emblem shown above (photo C.H. Wulff)



In 1913 the famous PEUGEOT Bébé was offered with  an engine constructed by Ettore BUGATTI.
Here you see the lovely brass radiator emblem. I had to buy the whole radiator to get an original emblem.
Only 3,095 cars were sold.



Size
 10,5 cm x 5.4 cm

Year
 1913

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The Peugeot Bébé was given a really filigree emblem




This is my all time favorite of Peugeot emblems:


Size
5.9 cm 

Year
 unknown

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Finally I found an ad with a round Peugeot emblem very similar to the round emblem shown above.




The PEUGEOT Type 172 had two emblems on the radiator:  a simple brass emblem with the letters 5CV and an enameled emblem on top






1925 advertisment for the PEUGEOT 5CV








In the twenties of the last century, PEUGEOT also offered vehicles with 6-cylinder engines:


PEUGEOT 12 CV SIX TYPE 183



Size11.4 cm  x  12.7 cm
Year1928 - 1930
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contemporary advertisment showing the 12 - SIX Peugeot radiator badge 


1913 adverstisement showing, that Peugeot exported to Germany even before WWI

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Here you see the typical Peugeot emblems of the twenties:


Ther was a small and a large version. The large version is very rare. You find it on the type 153.
So the evaluation is for the large version:

Size 5.3 cm x 10.0 cm
Year1921
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this is a very, very  rare color variation


Size 5.3 cm x 10.0 cm
Year1921
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backside without makers mark ( as usual in France )




This is the most commun prewar enameled Peugeot emblem. You still have the chance to buy a fine original for small money.



Size4.0 x  8.2 cm
Year1920 - 1926
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contemporary photo, radiator with the emblem shown above



1926 color advertisment



From 1924 to 1929 there was a PEUGEOT production plant in Milano / Italy.
Of course they had their own emblem, but still made in the French style of the type 201.

wanted:  don´t hesitate to offer me this emblem

Size
 4.8 cm x 8.2 cm
Year
1924 - 1929
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Here is the next Italian PEUGEOT radiator emblem seen  on an Italian car meeting years ago.

wanted: don´t hesitate to offer me this emblem !

Size


Year
 1911 - 1912

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Italian Peugeot firewall emblem  (Wanted: don´t hesitate to offer me one )


left: enameled numbers in the colors of the French flag       right: simple chrome version
Size15.7 x  13.0 cm
Year1934 - 1937
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PEUGEOT ad showing the de luxe 201 emblem with the national colors of France (see emblem above)






left: enameled numbers in the colors of the French flag          right: simple chrome version

Size15.7 x  13.0 cm
Year1934 - 1936
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only chrome versions known

Size
 6.8 cm x 11.6 cm
Year
1934 -1935 (401 and 601)
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In 1936 PEUGEOT started new series of cars. The large 402 in1936, the medium sized 302 in 1937 and a compact typ 202 in 1938. All cars had a streamline body in the style of the CHRYSLER Airflow !
all numbers are painted not enameled
Size17.2 x  14.0 cm (type 402)
Year1936 - 1940
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While WWII the military needed vast amounts of metals to produce weapons etc.
So PEUGEOT built the emblem in Bakelite,  the first synthetic material.
These war emblems are hard to find:
very rare version ( I have a spare to swap on )

Size18.0cm  x  13.2 cm (type 202)
Year1940
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The Peugeot 402 legere was offered in 1937 until 1938


Size17.2 x  14.0 cm 
Year1937 - 1938
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This car was followed by the Peugeot 402 B legere in 1939:



Size25 cm x 8 cm
Year1939
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While WWII Peugeot produced small trucks for military purposes ( see my post PEUGEOT trucks
  ).
Only one civil car type was made: the VLV electric car:


two seater electric car


wanted: VLV bakelite emblem. Don´t hesitate to offer me one


Just to show you how nice  Peugeot emblems of the ninteenfifties can be. If you find this don´t hesitate to buy one !
Peugeot Scooter front emblem
Size7.4 x  6.7 cm
Year1954 - 1958
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unrestored PEUGEOT Scooter Type S57



PEUGEOT had a very good restart after the Second World War. To make the newly developed type 203 model known to the public, it was also given a specific emblem on the trunk  in 1949. This was elaborately designed and highly sought after by collectors:


one year only trunk emblem


Size
  20.0 cm x 11.0 cm
Year
1949
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PEUGEOT mounted this emblem on the trunk lid of the Type 203 in 1950 and on the front of the bus D3A, D4A and D4A  from 1950 to 1965:



Size7.4 x  9.5 cm
Year1950 - 1965
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The following emblem was also mounted on the front of the PEUGEOT bus type D3A and D4A until 1960. On the D4B it was replaced by a simple lettering, which was also used on the saloons built in parallel. This was probably purely a cost-saving measure.

very large PEUGEOT bus emblem


Size25.5 x  7.0 cm
Year1950 - 1960
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My favorite Peugeot bus photo. It was taken by myself when I spent my vacation in France in 1982. The two emblems described above can be seen on the front. I hope that this bus has survived.
(Photo copyright Claus H. Wulff)





The following emblem was mounted on the front of the type 203 from 1949 to 1959. Due to the high number of PEUGEOT 203s built, it is still very easy to find in good original condition.







PEUGEOT 203 front  ( photo copyright  Claus H. Wulff )



In the last model year of the Peugeot 203, the emblem was moved to the hood and given a different but similar design:

Peugeot hood emblem from the typ 203

Size5.8 x  4.6 cm
Year1959 - 1960
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