Établissements Pieper

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Pieper from 1900
Pieper from 1900
Beeper with gasoline-electric drive by De Dion-Bouton 1900

The Société des Établissements Pieper , from 1890 also Pieper et Bayard, was a Belgian company from Liège .

Company history

Henri Pieper (1840–1898), of German descent, founded a mechanical workshop for the manufacture of weapon components in Liège in 1866 and, shortly afterwards, a factory for the manufacture of gun barrels in Nessonveaux . In 1889 he was one of the financiers of the newly founded Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (FN) in Herstal , which manufactured Mauser rifles under license for the Belgian army. The Établissements Pieper mainly built revolvers and revolver rifles . After Henri Pieper's death, his son Nicolas took over the management and reorganized the company into SA Établissements Pieper . From around 1890, besides pocket pistols , bicycles were also produced under the name Pieper et Bayard .

Automotive branch

From 1897 onwards, automobiles were also manufactured and marketed as Pieper . This area has always been a side branch of the company; production was stopped again in 1903. Auto-Mixte from Herstal produced gasoline-electric vehicles according to the "Pieper System" from 1906. The company Imperia took over the plant .

Electric cars

In 1897 the company produced its first car, a Voiturette with an electric motor , which was followed by other vehicles with electric motors by 1903.

Gasoline-electric cars

A model followed in 1899 in which a single-cylinder engine from De Dion-Bouton charged the batteries, while an electric motor provided the drive (" serial hybrid drive ").

Gasoline cars

The Type A from 1899 to 1901 was powered by a single cylinder De Dion-Bouton engine that developed 3 hp . The type B from 1901 to 1903 had a single-cylinder engine with 6 HP, the type C from 1901 to 1903 a two-cylinder engine with 8 HP. Type B and Type C were available in two-seater, vis-à-vis , Duc, Tonneau and delivery van body styles . The 12 CV model from 1901 to 1903 had a four-cylinder engine with 12 hp. From 1902 there were also the 7 CV models with a two-cylinder engine and 20 CV with a four-cylinder engine.

Anciens Établissements Pieper

Share in Anciens Établissements Pieper SA from 1905

Nicolas Pieper carried out another reorganization in 1905, which led to the company name SA Anciens Établissements Pieper . Pieper was now working on an automatic pistol, for which he received patents. Between 1907 and 1908 production was combined in a new factory in Herstal; the other locations were given up. At that time the company is said to have employed 1000 people.

Pieper handguns were complex and expensive. The market share decreased steadily; their production was completely stopped after the Second World War . Instead, sporting guns and long guns were now in the program.

Product names (selection)

  • Pieper & Bayard
  • Bergmann-Bayard (License)

literature

  • Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian, Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge , Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-87057-001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-85120-090-9 . (French)
  • George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Établissements Pieper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.