Hispano-Suiza
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Hispano-Suiza is a Spanish automotive company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damián Mateu as an automobile manufacturer and by the 1930s had several factories in Spain and one in France t
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 HS21 by Mazel
Hispano-Suiza HS.404
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The HS.404 is an autocannon originally designed by and produced by the Swiss arm of the Spanish–Swiss company Hispano-Suiza in the mid-1930s. Production was later moved to the French arm of Hispano-Su
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…lack of an engine when World War II began. A development of the era were a series of 20 mm autocannon, first the Hispano-Suiza HS.9, followed by the Hispano-Suiza HS.404. The 404 was licensed for production in Britain and equipped almost all RAF fighter aircraft during the war. Production was also set up in the US, but…
HS.404 in the TCM-20 twin anti-aircraft configuration, displayed at the Israeli Air Force Museum
20 mm Hispano-Suiza Mk V on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
Israeli anti-aircraft M3 Half-track with twin H.S. 404 auto-cannons
US Patent drawing of the Hispano Suiza cannon