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Turicum was a Swiss automobile manufactured between 1904 and 1906 in Zurich, 1907 till 1912 in Uster. Turicum is the Latin name of Zurich. The first car made by Martin Fischer was a small single-seater go-kart like vehicle, 140 cm long, with pedal-operated steering and powered by a motorcycle engine. It had chain drive but a second prototype had friction drive. The friction drive consisted of a flat steel disc coupled to the engine which drove a small, leather-covered wheel running at right angles to its surface. The small wheel could be moved across the surface of the large disc, giving an infinitely variable gear ratio. They attracted little public interest. The Siss industrialist Jakob Heusser was also involved to establish the car manufacturer.
Turicum may refer to:
- Turicum (automobile), a Swiss automobile manufacturer
- Turicum (Zürich), a Roman vicus, now better known as the Swiss city of Zurich
- Turicum (ship, 1992), a passenger ship operating on Lake Zurich in Switzerland
Turicum is the Latin name of the Swiss municipality of Zürich and one of the most important aerchologicals sites in the canton of Zürich. In Roman times, Turicum was a tax-collecting point respectivelvy vicus at the border of the Roman provinces Gallia Belgica (from AD 90 Germania Superior) and Raetia for goods trafficked on the waterway Walensee- Obersee-Zürichsee passing Centum Prata (Kempraten) towards the rivers Limmat, Aare and Rhine from and towards the Roman heartland over the mountain passes of the Swiss Alps.