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Marc Birkigt (8 March 1878, Geneva – 15 March 1953, Versoix) was a Swiss engineer, automotive and aviation pioneer, and co-founder of Hispano-Suiza in...

Birkigt may refer to: Birkigt (Freital), a district of Freital, Germany Marc Birkigt, a Swiss engineer This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

during World War II. The cannon is also referred to as Birkigt type 404, after its designer Marc Birkigt and later versions based on British development are...

'Spanish-Swiss') is a Spanish automotive company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damián Mateu [es] as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had...

HS.9. This design was later abandoned by Hispano-Suiza. In the 1930s, Marc Birkigt designed an entirely new gas-operated cannon with a locked bolt, the...

needed] The H6 engine featured a straight-six engine inspired by designer Marc Birkigt's work on aircraft engines. It was an all-aluminium engine displacing...

Paris-based body maker Carrosserie J. Saoutchik and used Swiss engineer Marc Birkigt's V12 engine. Rogliatti 1973, p. 77. Kimes 1990, p. 646. Nicholson 1982...

American Curtiss OX-5. The 1915 Hispano-Suiza 8 SOHC engine was designed by Marc Birkigt from Switzerland and was built by Hispano-Suiza in France and Spain as...

and Australia's Alexander Pentland. In February 1915, Swiss designer Marc Birkigt had created an overhead cam aviation powerplant based on his Hispano-Suiza...

claimed that a large portion of the credit for the S.XIII lies with Marc Birkigt, the designer of the engine, who had chosen to introduce various innovative...

Credited with creating the world's first purpose-built motor car in 1886 Marc Birkigt Hispano-Suiza H6 Ettore Bugatti Bugatti cars Colin Chapman Lotus Cars...

travelled to Barcelona in early 1905, and while there met with fellow Swiss Marc Birkigt of Hispano-Suiza. Pictet was so enamoured of the Hispano-Suizas that...

company were switched to the production of war materiel. Chief engineer Marc Birkigt led work on an aircraft engine based on his successful V8 automobile...

Nieuport 23 and the Hanriot HD.1. The SPAD S.VII was designed around Marc Birkigt's Hispano-Suiza engine, and when the new fighter entered service in September...

12M Type V-12 National origin France Manufacturer Société Francaise Hispano-Suiza Designer Marc Birkigt First run 1927...

12N Type V-12 National origin France Manufacturer Société Francaise Hispano-Suiza Designer Marc Birkigt First run 1928 Variants Hispano-Suiza 18R...

SAB C.1 (Béchereau, Louis Blériot and Adolphe Bernard, supported by Marc Birkigt) Béchereau SRAP T.7 (Arthur H Becker, Brocton, NY) Becker BS-4 (F W Beckner...

Avions Bernard (also known as Société des trois B) with Bernard and Marc Birkigt. He also collaborated with the Salmson motor company and, in 1931, joined...

6-cylinder chassis, it was also used by Hispano-Suiza on a car designed by Marc Birkigt with a mechanical servo and Henri Rougier reworked a limited quantity...

Merry Graeme Wesley Killick Women's Race (Classic, interval) Marcia Rita Birkigt Alysson Flora Marshall Jennifer Bryn Knight Men's Race (Free, mass start)...