Editing Unic (section)

==Origins==
Unic was founded by [[Georges Richard]] after he left [[Richard-Brasier]].  In 1905 Richard had a meeting with the entrepreneur-financier [[Henri de Rothschild|Baron Henri de Rothschild]] and obtained funding for the creation of the "'''société anonyme des automobiles Unic'''", based at [[Puteaux]].<ref name="Gazoline n°185">''[http://www.gazoline.net/ Gazoline] n°185'', décembre 2011.</ref>  The objective was to manufacture "unique" (rather than mainstream) vehicles, and at the start the company made only light cars and taxis with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines.

The taxi business would remain important to Unic for more than three decades, while Rothschild's steady financial support through good times and bad, provided stability which sustained the business, critically during the immediate post-[[Second World War|war]] years.