{{Short description|Belgian arms manufacturer}} {{redirect|Pieper}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2021}} [[File:Anciens Etabl. Pieper 1905.jpg|thumb|Share of the Anciens Établissements Pieper SA, issued 1905]] '''Anciens Etablissements Pieper''' was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[arms manufacturer]] established under the name '''Henri Pieper''' in [[Herstal]], Belgium in 1884 (some sources, 1866), by Henri Pieper. In 1898, it was renamed to '''Nicolas Pieper''', and it became the Anciens Etablissements Pieper in 1905. It stayed in business until approximately 1950. The company used the Bayard [[trade name]] (after the [[Bayard (legend)|legendary horse]] of [[Renaud de Montauban]]) and manufactured the 1888 Henri-Pieper rifle, the [[Pieper M1893]] carbine, the [[Bergmann–Bayard pistol]] and the [[Bayard 1908]] [[pistol]]. The company also produced a small pistol with a tip-up barrel ("basculant") to facilitate loading.<ref>Klein, Stefan Michel Druart, and Ed Buffaloe. The Pistols of Nicolas Pieper. 2020. https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/NP/np.html (retrieved 2024-05-12)</ref> [[File:NPieper1908Pistol.jpg|thumb|N. Pieper 1908 Model "basculant" pistol, 6.35mm, on display at the Cody Firearms Museum, [[Buffalo Bill Center of the West]], Cody, Wyoming.]]
==Pieper== [[File:Pieper petroleo-electrique 1900.png|thumb|left|Pieper petrol-electric car]]
From 1897, the company also produced cars.<ref>Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile</ref> In 1900, Henri Pieper introduced a [[hybrid vehicle]] with an electric motor/generator, batteries, and a small gasoline engine. It used the electric motor to charge its batteries at cruise speed and used both motors to accelerate or climb a hill. The Pieper factory was taken over by [[Impéria Automobiles|Impéria]], after Pieper died.
[[Auto-Mixte]], also of Belgium, built vehicles from 1906 to 1912 under the Pieper patents. {{-|left}}
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==External links== * [http://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/Bayard/bayard.html unblinkingeye.com] * [http://littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20p/a%20pieper%20en%20tete%20gb.htm Pieper] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090904154040/http://www.hybridcars.com/history/history-of-hybrid-vehicles.html History of hybrid vehicles]
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