The Serpollet Tricycle/Peugeot Type 1 is a small steam tricycle, produced by

Peugeot Peugeot (, , ) is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis. The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and the ...

in 1886. It is the first Peugeot car ever made. The Serpollet Tricycle was one of the first industrially manufactured motor vehicles; it was designed by

Léon Serpollet Léon Serpollet (4 October 1858 – 1 February 1907) was a French engineer and developer of flash steam boilers and steam automobiles. Léon Serpollet was born in Culoz, in the Ain department of France in 1859, son of the carpenter Auguste ...

, and first presented in 1886. The tricycle possessed an oil-fired boiler and a single-cylinder engine with poppet valves and crank cases. The steam tricycle of 1899 produced about with its 4 cylinders. It achieved a maximum speed of about .

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