Pic-Pic
Sign in to savethumb|1911 Piccard-Pictet Type 18 thumb|1919 Piccard-Pictet advertisement thumb|Share of the SA des Ateliers Piccard, Pictet & Cie, issued March 1917 thumb|Pic-Pic racing car (1914) Pic-Pic was a Swiss automobile manufactured in Geneva from 1906 to 1924. They were produced by the Piccard-Pictet Company (whence its name derives) until 1920, and by Gnome et Rhône from 1920 until the demise of the marque in 1924.
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It sits within the topics Car manufacturers of Switzerland and Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Switzerland.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- automobile manufacturer
- Country
- Switzerland
- Headquarters
- Geneva
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
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- Commons category
- Pic-Pic vehicles
- inception
- 1905-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1920-00-00
- location of formation
- Geneva
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thumb|1911 Piccard-Pictet Type 18 thumb|1919 Piccard-Pictet advertisement thumb|Share of the SA des Ateliers Piccard, Pictet & Cie, issued March 1917 thumb|Pic-Pic racing car (1914) Pic-Pic was a Swiss automobile manufactured in Geneva from 1906 to 1924. They were produced by the Piccard-Pictet Company (whence its name derives) until 1920, and by Gnome et Rhône from 1920 until the demise of the marque in 1924.
== History == Founded in 1906, Pic-Pic originated as the automotive branch of the Geneva engineering firm Ateliers Piccard-Pictet & Cie. The vehicles were designed by Léon Dufour and gained an early reputation for precision engineering, often being referred to as the "Rolls-Royce of Switzerland." In 1913, the Geneva icon Pic-Pic, with 332 units, was the best-selling car of the year in Switzerland. In 1917, 428 vehicles of the Pic-Pic brand were registered in Switzerland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pic-Pic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.