Leon Turcat of Marseille, enjoyed recalling the story sixty years later when he visited with Armand Peugeot. He had asked the automotive pioneer regarding the future of the horseless carriage and that Mme Peugeot had remarked that he husband was “dead keen on motor cars.” His brother in law, Alphonse Méry had taken delivery of a Panhard et Levassor and a Peugeot. Then he and Simon Méry, both engineers, ran these cars through some trials to see if the current leaders in the art of automobiles could be improved upon and that these improvements could form the basis for a company. They built a car of their own design which had a 2.6-litre, four-cylinder, five-speed car with electric ignition, radiators at each end of the engine and two speeds in reverse.
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