Hispano-Suiza is a Spanish automotive company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damián Mateu as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had several factories in Spain and France that produced luxury cars, aircraft engines, trucks and weapons.
Stock certificate of June 14, 1904
A Brussels museum-preserved Hispano-Suiza HS.8A SOHC aviation engine from World War I
The stork hood ornament
Hispano-Suiza Carmen on display at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show
Marc Birkigt was a Swiss engineer, automotive and aviation pioneer, and co-founder of Hispano-Suiza in 1904.
Share of the Hispano Suiza Fabrica de Automoviles SA, issued 30. May 1905
The Maître Mansion, aka "Rive Bleu", on the Route de Lausanne 392-394 in Versoix Geneva, Switzerland, commissioned by Birkigt, designed by architect Henry Baudin (1876-1929), constructed between 1926 and 1928, and decorated by the artist Éric Hermès (1881–1971).
The tomb of Marc and Eugénie Birkigt in Versoix Geneva, Switzerland