GUY

GUY MOTORS LIMITED / WOLVERHAMTON / UK  ( 1919 - 1925  )

GUY founded by  Sydney S. Guy  was well knwon as Commercials manufacturer and started making privat automobiles after WWI.

They offered the first british made V8 engine and a chassis with automatic lubrification. To my knowledge they sold 25 automobiles.

Thats why they offered a more simple four-cylinder model with COVENTRY CLIMAX motor in 1924. Sales figures for the four-cylinder GUY were modeste, they sold about 110 cars and GUY concentrated on commercial vehicles. The last commercial lorry was sold under the name GUY in the nineteen sixties.

 Less than 150 privat cars were built so this emblem is very, very rare:

 

Size	10.0 cm x  7.1 cm
Year	1919 - 1925
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backside with makers mark from J.FRAY Ltd

 

 

1919 advertisement showing the emblem

 

Of course, there are many other GUY emblems, but these are all from trucks or buses. Of these emblems, I am showing my favorite here, as it features a magnificently enameled Native American head:

 

 

 

 

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WANDERER / CHEMNITZ / GERMANY

 WANDERER / CHEMNITZ / GERMANY  ( 1912 - 1939 )

In 1900, Richard Jänicke and Johann B. Winkelhofer began manufacturing bicycles in Chemnitz / Saxony, and from 1902 motorcycles as well. In the years that followed, they developed a small car called the “Puppchen”, which they brought onto the market in 1912/13. Numerous other models followed, all of which enjoyed an excellent reputation due to their quality. Due to economic difficulties, WANDERER  became part of AUTO UNION together with AUDI, DKW and HORCH, in 1932.
Production was not restarted after the Second World War, partly because the factories were now located in the Soviet occupation zone (DDR).

 

 

Size	8.8 cm x 6.3 cm
Year	1912 - 1926
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backside without makers mark

 

 

 

 

 The special construction of this vehicle are the two single seats arranged one behind the other:

Three WANDERER "Puppchen", all with red emblem, seen in Germany in 2024

 

 

 

The emblem shown above was not the very first of the Wanderer automobiles. When the first car appeared in 1912, it bore a circular emblem. However, as the Windhoff company objected to this because of an alleged risk of confusion, only a few vehicles were fitted with this emblem. I have never seen such an emblem in real life, but there is the following photo and my drawing:

 

 

 

It was not until 1926 that there was a small change in the emblem. With the introduction of the type W10/I, the color in the lower circle of the emblem changed from white/red to white/blue:

 

 

 

Size	8.8 cm x 6.3 cm
Year	1926 - 1929
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Until 1928, all Wanderer cars only had an emblem. From April 1929, they were additionally equipped with a radiator mascot, a double W, designed by Baron Klaus Detlof von Oertzen and patented in 1929:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the WANDERER type W 10/IV, the emblem shown above, which had been in use since 1912/13, disappeared. A shield-shaped emblem was created, whereby the raute-shaped emblem was provided with six green/white fields, the Saxon state colors: 

 

This emblem adorned all radiators until February 1936

 

Size	4.4 cm x 6.1   cm
Year	1929 - 1936
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backside with makers mark from Josef Preissler / Pforzheim

 

 This emblem was also registered as a trademark on December 12, 1929:

 I was also able to find this emblem. However, I have not yet been able to find out where and when it was used. Based on the design of the letters, however, it must have been used between 1929 and 1930:

 

Who knows what is was made for ?

 

 A beautiful collection of three WANDERER radiators, seen in a German museum in 2023:

 

 

 

 

 I saw this strange WANDERER mascot and emblem in Italy in 2012:

 

 

 

On top the four rings instead of the green / white emblem and in the middle a massive letter W instead of the rings. Selfmade or special Italian version, that´s the question !
 

 

 8 victims of WW2, still restorable:

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STANGUELLINI / ITALY

STANGUELLINI / MODENA / ITALY  ( 1937 - 1965 ) 

Francesco STANGUELLINI ran the Fiat dealership in Modena from 1908. He also raced cars on the S.C.A.T. and CEIRANO. His son Vittorio STANGUELLINI took over the business in 1932. He began tuning Fiat cars for racing in 1937. The first car under his name, the Stanguellini 750 Sport Nazionale, was built in 1937. The models were mostly offered as an open roadster, rarely as a closed coupé. From 1958, Stanguellini had the majority of the bodies built by Carrozzeria Gransport in Modena, with individual bodies also coming from Motto and Ala d'Oro. The company was very successful in car racing, particularly in the 1950s. Production was discontinued in 1965. 

Production numbers were always low and an original emblem is hard to find.  There are reproductions on the market, but they are flat, whereas the original is slightly curved.

 

Size	5.0 cm
Year	1947 - 1965
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backside without makers mark

 

 

c. 1960 advertisement showing the correct position of the emblem

 

1947 STANGUELLINI race car seen in Padova /Italy in 2022

 

 

 

 Very few STANGUELLINI vehicles were produced. But there was a drawing of the  STANGUELLINI emblem, which was made by the Swedish boy Gustaf Moeller back in the 1950s. Gustaf lived near the ferry port in Helsingborg / Sweden and drew the emblems of the waiting cars there. What a great hobby that still helps and delights us a hundred years later:

 

 

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D.F.P. / FRANCE

 

 DORIOT, FLANDRIN & PARANT ( = DFP ) COURBEVOIE / FRANCE  ( 1908 - 1927 ) 

 In 1908, the former Peugeot employees Auguste Doriot and Ludovic Flandrin, who had previously managed the Doriot-Flandrin company, founded the new company Doriot, Flandrin et Parant in Courbevoie together with the brothers Alexandre and Jules-René Parant. The brand name was DFP. After the First World War, the company was unable to repeat its previous sales successes. Due to financial difficulties, production ended in 1926 and Voiturettes Th. Lafitte took over the company.

The first voiturettes had a  1-cylinder engines, which were followed by a 4-cylinder type in the 1908 model year. A “Chapuis - Dornier” power unit served as  engine. The French DFP was also marketed in England by Walter O. Bentley, the initiator of BENTLEY,  the still famous English car brand. 

 The company name was sometimes written with dots between the letters and sometimes without:

This is supposed to be a radiator from the first DFP with 1-cylinder engine

 

    The well-known emblem with the running greyhound appeared before the First World War:

Here the dog is still running through the letters:

Size	9.3 cm x 6.0 cm
Year	1912 -
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same emblem but a more simple radiator design ( seen in France in 2002 )

 

 To my knowledge the stylish, enameled emblem appeared in 1913 showing a dog running above the three letters:

 

On the emblem you can read: FIDELE ET VITE  = loyal and fast, obviously the dog should represent exactly that

Size	9.3  cm x 6.2 cm
Year	1913 - 1925
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The French magazine OMNIA was showing the radiator with the new emblem in 1913

At the bottom of the emblem you can read  the production location COURBEVOIE.  There should also be emblems where it says LONDON. However, I have not seen any so far.

 

 

 

my D.F.P. presentation

 

 For me this is a perfect advertisement:

 

1920 ad in the OMNIA magazine

 

 The last radiator emblem became more simple; just a round badge with modernized letters DFP

 

now the dog behind the letter

 

Size	6.0 cm
Year	1926 - 1927
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Source: Archives de la Somme Publicité automobile GUER 1321 media 1 lot 1

 

 There are repros like this on the market:

 

                        Reproductions are easy to recognize. Above the original, below the repro:

The DFP company was taken over by Théophile Schneider. Here you can see the Th. Lafitte emblems !

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