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 -
Estimate

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
Estimate

 

 

 

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
Estimate

 

 

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 !

 For more emblems see older posts or top right ( list of car makers ).

When using a smartphone please use the button webview. 

RYJAN / FRANCE

 

RYJAN / CHATOU / NANTERRE / FRANCE  ( 1920 - 1926 ) 

Not much is known about the French car manufacturer that built cars from 1920 to 1926.
In the net you find that there is still one car left. But that car shows no emblem.
In 1925 the company moved from Chatou to Nanterre.
My emblem should be from the last model that used a 2 litre engine made by ALTOS.
I had to buy the whole radiator to get this rare and large emblem.

 

 

Size	4.0 cm x 10.0 cm
Year	1920 - 1926
Estimate

 

source:  Archives de la Somme Guerr 1402 lot 1 media 2

 

 

source: Archives de la Somme Guer 1402 lot 1 media 1

 

For more emblems see older posts or top right  (list of car makers).

When using a smartphone please use the button webview. 

KOMNICK / GERMANY

 

KOMNICK / ELBING / GERMANY (today Poland)  ( 1907 - 1927 )
 

Karl Franz KOMNICK started his car production in 1907. The factory was locted in Elbing / East Prussia, so they sold their cars also to Russia, Poland and other eastern countries. The first cars had the radiator behind the engine. The KOMNICK was famous for his durability. But it was never a  mass - producer, so they had to close in 1927.  To my knowledge no car survived WW1 and WW2, so the emblem is also very, very rare.

KOMNICK radiator emblem

Size	7.0 cm
Year	1907 - 1927
Estimate

backside of an original emblem

Early Komnick vehicle with radiator behind the engine:

What do you think, is there an emblem in the middle of the fire wall ?

1923 KOMNICK truck with (painted ?) emblem behind the door

The emblem design in a shape of a shield was patented in 1913:

There was another KOMNICK emblem for the branch that built machines:

I have never seen this particular emblem in reality

One of my favorite KOMNICK items:

KOMNICK ashtray, seen in the Military Museum in Elblag / Poland in 2025

early advertisement showing the knight´s cross of the emblem

Look at the details: the radiator to the left is showing a motometer with KOMNICK emblem and at the bottom right an acorn with a leaf, the emblem of the “Buy German cars” movement

1913 advertisement in a German Motor journal  also using the Russian language

1927 photo with technical data showing the last KOMNICK automobile

Another ad showing the radiator emblem. It says: better than using horses.....

In 1924 KOMNICK participated at the AUTOMOBIL AUSSTELLUNG in Berlin

1926 advertisement

The last passenger car produced by Komnick had an unusually designed radiator in the shape of the shield of the Knights of the Order:

Unfortunately, not a single vehicle of this type has survived, not even a radiator has been saved.

What is left: remains of the gravestone of company founder Franz Komnick ( seen in 2025 in Elblag/Poland)

SELVE, NAG PROTOS, KOMNICK and WANDERER emblem, all victims of WWII and later rescued from a garbage dump.

For more  emblems see older posts or top right of this page (list of car makers).

When using a smartphone please use the button webview.