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Geneva precision-luxury marque ranging from large four-cylinder chassis and trucks to sleeve-valve cars, a V8 flagship and Grand Prix racers

PI Identity / Register monogram

17models on record

1910–1924recorded span

Model activity by decade

1910s1910s

1 limited edition

2 total units across the few-off lineage

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About the marque

Founded: 1906 – 1924
Country: Switzerland

Ateliers Piccard-Pictet began assembling automobiles for Société d'Automobiles à Genève in 1906 and continued under its own Pic-Pic contraction after SAG ended in 1910. Its broad catalog ranged from 14/16 and 20/24 cars to an 8.4-litre truck and immense luxury chassis; Burt-McCollum single-sleeve-valve engineering became a signature. Pic-Pic sold 332 cars in 1913, then built two front-braked 4.5-litre Grand Prix racers for 1914. Wartime industrial work supported the factory, but its ambitious 1919 restart and Type 28 V8 could not withstand postwar competition. Bankruptcy followed in 1920; Gnome et Rhône acquired the marque and completed cars from parts until the final 1924 Geneva display. Only a few vehicles survive.

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Catalog

17 models

Smallest named model in the surviving 1910 Pic-Pic catalog table. Coachwork, wheelbase and output are not securely documented.

Middle 1910 Pic-Pic chassis. Period catalog evidence establishes its engine dimensions and power but not a single standardized body.

Largest named 1910 class, distinguished from the better-specified 1912 35/45 rather than silently assuming identical engines.

Source-listed heavy commercial member of the Pic-Pic program. The 4.65-ton designation is retained as published without interpreting it as curb…

Intermediate long-wheelbase 1912 model. Its calculated displacement is derived from the source-listed cylinder geometry.

Largest documented 1912 Pic-Pic chassis, kept separate from the unspecified 1910 35/45 because its cylinder dimensions and wheelbase are…

Opening 1912 passenger class. Calculated displacement is explicitly derived from published bore and stroke because the accessible table's…

1912 model represented by a surviving period-captioned car. Body styles varied by coachwork and are not collapsed into a fictitious factory body…

Long-stroke 1912 four-cylinder. No reliable body-by-body production split survives.

16/20 Sleeve-valve

Quiet-running sleeve-valve model central to Pic-Pic's engineering reputation. Period sources vary slightly on stated capacity, so the supported range…

One of two larger 1913 catalog classes. The two published capacities are preserved as variants rather than assigned unsupported submodel names.

Largest named class in the surviving 1913 table. No technical values are inferred from adjacent models.

1914 Grand Prix

Purpose-built competition derivative notable for front-wheel brakes. Both works entries withdrew, so racing participation is not presented as a…

1918 70×140 Four-cylinder (designation unknown)

Source-confirmed 1918 engine/chassis specification whose commercial type name is not preserved. It is retained to avoid erasing a documented model…

1918 90×170 Four-cylinder (designation unknown)

Larger unnamed 1918 specification. Its type code, body and production quantity remain unavailable and are not reconstructed from later models.

Postwar series model introduced in 1919. Piccard-Pictet failed in 1920; Gnome et Rhône and successor interests completed cars from remaining parts…

Prestige postwar V8 offered with sources also listing a longer 3,809 mm chassis. Evidence does not establish continued assembly after the 1920…