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The Type 159 was a car midrange produced between 1919 and 1920 by the automaker French Peugeot.
The Type 159 was a transition model based on the pre-war projects and wanted to give back to the start of production at a Peugeot in serious financial difficulties caused by inflation galloping post-war and the need to restart car production, although with obvious organizational difficulties. In fact, following the outbreak of the First World War, many companies specializing in the transport sector had to convert their normal production in the production of military vehicles and equipment, with the result that at the end of the war there were many companies that were in crisis having to return to normal production. Some of these companies failed to even make the first conversion to wartime production and closed its doors. Other closed in an attempt to return to normal production automobile. The Peugeot Lion belonged to the first category, and after having risen in the production of cars which among other things also met with commercial success, he accused a huge economic blow due to the outbreak of the war and closed its doors. The Peugeot, which had relegated to the Peugeot Lion devote himself to the task of low-end cars (the ancestor of the Type 159 was the ideal Lion 10HP ), then returned to deal directly and in 1919 introduced the Type 159, a compact car (3.7 m long by 1.45 wide, 2.64 m wheelbase) designed to stanch the wounds that the war had left the French House.
The Type 159 was equipped with the motor MG, a 4 -cylinder from 1452 cc ( bore and stroke : 68x100 mm ) capable of propelling the car to a top speed of 55 km / h. In this way, thanks to this car, the Peugeot could restore part of its budget, even if only in part, from the moment that the Type 159 was produced in 502 specimens, a number is also small enough for the time, but that in any case served the French company was able to recover: in the second half of 1919 was completed the Type 163, designed in the following year to replace the Type 159.