Pic-Pic

CH, 1906 – 1924

(1) Sté des Automobiles à Genève,  1906 – 1910

(2) Piccard-Pictet et Cie, Geneva, 1910 – 1924

Piccard-Pictet began motor manufacture by making racing cars for the Dufaux brothers, but their own Piccard-Pictet car, the ‘Rolls-Royce of Switzerland’ was designed in 1906 by Marc Birkigt. Although built in the Piccard-Pictet car factory, the cars were known as S.A.Gs until 1910. They were fours of 20/24 and 35/40hp, while a 28/32hp six followed in 1907. All were conventional, beautifull-made cars with an excellent performance. In 1910 a modern small monobloc four was added on the Piccard-Pictet car: the 14/16hp 2.4-litre. For 1912 one model, the 30hp Piccard-Pictet car, was given a single-sleeve-valve engine of Burt McCollum type; poppet-valve Pic-Pics were a 16hp and two Piccard-Pictet cars of 20hp with different strokes (90mm and 150mm, and 90mmx170mm). Two 4½-litre sleeve-valve Piccard-Pictet cars (or Pic-Pic cars) with front-wheel brakes ran in the 1914 Grand Pirx, but both retired.

During World war 1 Piccard-Pictet cars (Pic-Pic cars) were bought in large numbers but the Swiss Army; theses Piccard-Pictet cars were very durable, and 1918 Piccard-Pictet carmodels were still in use in the late 1930s. Both the basic post-war 1 Piccard-Pictet cars used single-sleeve-valve engines; these were a 2.9-litre 4-cylinder, and a 5.9-litre V8. However, the Piccard-Pictet car company’s sales were badly hit by cheap imported cars and the Piccard-Pictet car company were bankrupt by 1920. The new Piccard-Pictet car company concentrated on making turbines, but a few Pic-Pics were made by the Sté des Moteurs Gnome et Rhone. The last of these Piccard-Pictet cars was shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 1924.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN

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