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Unic 1904-1939 - Passenger car production before truck production

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Created in 2013

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Roger Gloor

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Unic Taxi (1908) - if you wanted to be driven

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Unic Type L1 Camionette (1923) - with four-cylinder engine (Rétromobile 2013)

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Unic (1906) - early product

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Unic GS Roi-des-Belges by Gordon (1911) - as lot 127 at the RM Auction Hershey on October 9/10, 2014

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Unic Type L1 Camionette (1923) - exhibited on the Cartier stand (Rétromobile 2013)

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Unic C9 Torpedo (1915)

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Unic V8 (1930) - in-line eight-cylinder

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Unic U6 (1938) - stately limousine

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Unic Busang (1958) - Standard truck with a total weight of 8.2 tons - Geneva Motor Show 1958

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There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of which have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Unic, which was characterized by quality and reliability and provided some special technical features.

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Connoisseurs are more likely to remember Unic trucks than the Pw brand Unic. Its founder, Georges Richard, had already started building cars with his brother Maxime in 1897. The talented designer Henri Brasier joined them in 1901; the Richard-Brasier brand was created in 1903/04. But then Brasier founded his own brand, while Georges Richard merged his share into the Société des Anciens Etablissements Georges Richard in Puteaux, Seine. The new brand name Unic referred to the single-model strategy with a 1.8 L two-cylinder engine. But as early as 1907, a 1945 cc four-cylinder model was added, which was also delivered to London as a cab and, like the Renault cabs, played an important role during the First World War as a troop transporter for the Battle of the Marne.

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