Hispano-Suiza car logos and Hispano-Suiza history
Hispano-Suiza is a global company from Spain (Sociedad Hispano-Suiza, fábrica de automóviles, sistema Birkigt) founded in 1904 by the Spaniards Damián Mateu and Francesco Seix, with Switzerland's Marc Birkigt, known for producing remarkable cars, combining luxury and performance during the period between the wars.
Hispano-Suiza is also famous for its jet engines, which are equipped including SPAD during the First World War, and most fighters until the Second World War.
After being integrated as a division of Snecma, Hispano-Suiza in 2007, is an integrated OEM aerospace group Safran.
# 1904: Foundation of the mark "Constructora Hispano-Suiza Automóviles, Barcelona, by the Swiss engineer Marc Birkigt, Damián Mateu and Francisco Seix. Specializing in automobiles, Fabrica La Hispano-Suiza Automóviles's hard to sell his production in his country of origin because of a clientele wealthy enough, despite the support of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
# 1911: Creation in France of the Hispano-Suiza, designed to assemble and sell in France luxury models designed by the Spanish company. Birkigt, who owns a company operating with patents registered in Switzerland, will resign from 1911 to 1914, over one hundred patents for aircraft engines in the world.
# 1914
* Hispano-Suiza establishes, at Bois-Colombes, a new factory to assemble its cars while the headquarters is in Barcelona.
* Entry Hispano-Suiza in aeronautics, with the design and manufacture of the famous aircraft engine eight-cylinder V, made more than fifty thousand copies.
# December 1914: the Ministry of War awards by authority to Gnome & Rhone factory of Bois-Colombes, against a very low rent.
# 1915: Company begins to make aircraft engines and provide the state with models extrapolated Patent Mercedes-Benz, seized by the state two days after the declaration of war. The arrival of so-called online models built by Hispano-Suiza, with the model V-8 hundred and fifty CV, provides a major innovation which align themselves Renault and Lorraine.
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