Baby Peugeot 5 HP motor car

Baby Peugeot 5 H.P. motor car, 1903. This design, together with the Renault and De Dion-Bouton designs played an important part in the development of the smallest type of motor car. It has a single-cylinder, water-cooled engine which drives the rear wheels through a three speed gearbox, an inverted cone clutch, propeller shaft and differential gear on a live back axle. At the 1901 Paris Salon, Peugeot debuted a tiny shaft-driven 652 cc (40 cu in) 5 hp (3.7 kW) one-cylinder, dubbed Bébé (Baby), and shed its conservative image, becoming a style leader. After placing nineteenth in the 1902 Paris-Vienna rally with a 50 hp (37.3 kW) 11,322 cc (691 cu in) racer, and failing to finish with two similar cars, Peugeot quit racing. By 1903, Peugeot produced half of the cars built in France, and they offered the 5 hp (4 kW) Bébé, a 6.5 hp (4.8 kW) four-seater, and an 8 hp (6.0 kW) and 12 hp (8.9 kW) resembling contemporary Mercedes models.

Details

Category:
Road Transport
Object Number:
1938-595
type:
private cars
credit:
Mrs. Warner Collins.

Parts

Glass Windscreen (excluding wooden frame) from inv. 1938 595 Pt.1

Glass Windscreen (excluding wooden frame) from inv. 1938 595 Pt.1

Glass Windscreen (excluding wooden frame) from inv. 1938 595 Pt.1, Baby Peugeot. See TOP record for extended information about this car.

Object Number:
1938-595 Pt2
type:
windscreen
Wooden Windscreen Frame (excluding glass panel) from inv. 1938 595 Pt. 1

Wooden Windscreen Frame (excluding glass panel) from inv. 1938 595 Pt. 1

Wooden Windscreen Frame (excluding glass panel) from inv. 1938 595 Pt. 1, Baby Peugeot. See TOP record for extended information about this car.

Object Number:
1938-595 Pt3
type:
frame
Canopy from Baby Peugeot, 5hp Motor Car

Canopy from Baby Peugeot, 5hp Motor Car

Canopy from Baby Peugeot, 5hp motor car, 1938-595 pt.1.

Measurements:
overall: 1730 mm x 1580 mm x 170 mm,
Object Number:
1938-595 Pt4
type:
canopy
Two metal bars from Baby Peugeot, 5hp motor car

Two metal bars from Baby Peugeot, 5hp motor car

Two metal bars (probably used in supporting the canopy) from Baby Peugeot, 5hp motor car, 1938-595 pt.1.

Materials:
metal (unknown)
Object Number:
1938-595 Pt5
type:
bar