Société Industrielle Genevoise de Mécanique et d'Automobiles

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Sigma from 1910

Sigma from 1911

The S ociété I ndustrielle G enevoise de M écanique et d ' A utomobiles was a Swiss automobile manufacturer. The brand name was Sigma .

Company history

The company began producing automobiles in 1909 in the former factory of the Société des Établissements L. Picker, Moccand & Cie in Geneva . Production ended in 1914. A total of around 250 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first model was the 8/11 CV , which was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with 1593 cm³ displacement and was produced until around 1911. In 1910 two models with a four-cylinder valve engine followed , the 18 CV with a displacement of 2614 cm³ and the 28 CV with a displacement of 4576 cm³. In 1912 the 15 CV and 25 CV Grand Tourisme models also appeared .

Two vehicles of this brand can be seen in the Musée de l'automobile de la Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny .

See also

• Automobiles Sigma , a French automobile manufacturer of the same name

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
• Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)