A Panhard-Levassor was the first automobile to be introduced in Japan, in 1898
 Panhard & Levassor X18 1912
 Panhard & Levassor X31 1921
 Dyna Panhard X 86 4-Door Sedan 1952
 Panhard repair manual cover showing PL 17 Panhard is a French motor vehicle manufacturer, who now specializes in light tactical and military vehicles. It was formed by the acquisition of Panhard by Auverland in 2005. Panhard had been under PSA ownership for 40 years. The combined company now uses the Panhard name. First automobile in Japan in 1898, a Panhard. ...
First automobile in Japan in 1898, a Panhard. ...
Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Panhard Auto from 1920s magazine ad This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years. ...
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1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
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The Panhard Véhicule Blindé Léger (Light armoured vehicle) is a wheeled 4x4 all-terrain vehicle offered in various configurations. ...
The French Army (French: Armée de Terre) is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces. ...
Auverland (Société nouvelle des automobiles Auverland), now grouped with Panhard, is a French manufacturer of armored fighting vehicles. ...
PSA Peugeot Citroën (PSA) is a vehicle company that owns the marques Peugeot and Citroën. ...
History Panhard was originally Panhard et Levassor and was established as a car manufacturing concern in about 1890 by René Panhard and Emile Levassor. Benz and Daimler, both of Germany, produced pilot models before this time, and Benz was in production by about 1888 with his three-wheeler. Emile Roger of Paris obtained a license to produce this car, and ended up producing more than Benz, due to the ready acceptance of automobiles by the French. Daimler began producing cars in small series circa 1890/91.
The company was founded when René Panhard and Emile Levassor decided to move from making woodworking machines to automobiles. Their first car used a Daimler engine and was offered in 1890. Daimler may refer to Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and automobile inventor in the 1880s Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, his Stuttgart-based company, maker of Mercedes vehicles since 1903, later merged into Daimler-Benz, maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles (since 1926) DaimlerChrysler (1998), a part German, part American, part Japanese car maker...
Daimler's Stahlradwagen prototypes of 1889 inspired Levassor to manufacture cars. He obtained a licence to produce Daimler's engine from a friend who already had this licence: a Belgain called Sarazin. Upon Sarazin's death in 1887, Sarazin's widow married Levassor, and the deal was cemented. Daimler and Levassor became fast friends, and shared improvements with one another.
These first vehicles set many modern standards, but each was a one-off design. They used a clutch pedal to operate a chain-driven gearbox. The vehicle also featured a front-mounted radiator. A 1895 Panhard is credited with the first modern transmission. A gearbox is an assembly of gears allowing the rotational speed of an input shaft to be changed to a different speed. ...
Radiators and convectors are types of heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. ...
In mechanics, a transmission or gearbox is the system of gears and/or the hydraulic system (called variously hydrodynamic, fluid or automatic transmission) that transmits mechanical power from a prime mover—such as an engine or electric motor—to a typically rotary output device at a lower angular momentum but...
The company's Systeme Panhard consisted of four wheels, a front-mounted engine with rear wheel drive, and a sliding-gear transmission. This was to become the standard layout for automobiles for most of the next century. In Automobile design, an FR, or Front-engine, Rear wheel drive, layout places the engine in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. ...
In automobile design, an FR, or front-engine, rear wheel drive means a layout where the engine is in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. ...
Rear wheel drive was a common form of engine/transmission layout used in automobiles throughout the 20th century. ...
Panhard shared their Daimler engine license with Armand Peugeot, who formed his own company, Peugeot, in 1891. Armand Peugeot (1849-1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. ...
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën. ...
Arthur Krebs succeeded to Levassor as Panhard-Levassor's General Manager from 1897 to 1916. He turned the Panhard-Levassor Company into one of the largest and profitable manufacturer of automobiles before WWI. Arthur Constantin Krebs (November 16, 1850 in Vesoul, France - March 22, 1935 in Quimperlé, France) was a french officer and pioneer in automotive engineering. ...
Panhards won numerous races from 1895 to 1903. Panhard developed the Panhard rod, which became used in many other types of automobiles as well. A Panhard rod is a component of a car suspension system that provides lateral location of the axle. ...
From 1925 the motors used the Knight Engine technology of using sleeve valves. That year a 4.8 litres got the world record for the hour fastest run at an average of 185.51 km/h. The Knight Engine was an internal combustion engine, designed by Charles Yale Knight (1868-1940), that used sleeve valves instead of the more common poppet valve construction. ...
After World War II the company produced light cars such as the Dyna X, Dyna Z, PL 17, 24 CT and 24 BT. The company managed to get around a steel-saving government regulation forbidding new car models by making the bodies and several other components out of aluminum, which of course helped the performance. The Dyna X and the Dyna Z 1 had an aluminum body. The later Dyna Z and the PL 17 bodies were made in steel. The bodies had smooth rounded forms which made the cars stand out in any post-war parking lot. The 24 CT was a beautiful 2+2 seater; the 24 BT with a longer wheelbase had enough space for four persons. The Panhard based Deutsch Bonnets ("DB Panhard") dominated the "Index of Performance" class at Le Mans and other small-engine racing classes. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
A 1959 Panhard Dyna Z A rare Dyna Z pick-up The Panhard Dyna Z was one of the last Panhard cars to be made, perhaps the last (potentially) really important model. ...
A 1964 Panhard PL 17 Rear view of the PL 17 The Panhard PL17 was presented on June 29th 1959 as successor to the Dyna Z. Underneath it was more or less the same car, but with an even more streamlined and somewhat more stylish bodywork. ...
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Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ...
DB was a French automobile maker between 1938 and 1961. ...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans) is the worlds most famous sports car endurance race, held annually at Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France, in the French Sarthe département. ...
The last Panhard passenger car was built in 1967. From 1968 on, Panhard has only made armored vehicles — the civilian branch was absorbed by Citroën in 1965, and the marque was retired. Military vehicles are commonly armoured to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets or shells, protecting the soldiers inside from enemy fire. ...
Citroën is a French automobile manufacturer, founded in 1919 by André Citroën. ...
A marque (French for brand and pronounced as mark) is a brand name, most commonly used for automobile brands. ...
In 2004, Panhard lost a competition to another manufacturer of military vehicles, Auverland, for the choice of the future PVP of the French Army. This allowed Auverland to purchase Panhard in 2005, which was at that time a subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroën. However, the fame of the Panhard being greater, it was decided that the company would take the name Panhard and that the PVP designed by Auverland would bear a Panhard badge. Auverland (Société nouvelle des automobiles Auverland), now grouped with Panhard, is a French manufacturer of armored fighting vehicles. ...
The Petit Véhicule Protégé (Small protected vehicle) is a light, general-purpose armoured 4-wheel drive vehicle used by the French Army. ...
PSA Peugeot Citroën (PSA) is a vehicle company that owns the marques Peugeot and Citroën. ...
See also The St Chamond was the second French heavy tank of the First World War. ...
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