VAN HOOL / Belgium

The VAN HOOL Company started in 1955 with the construction of bus bodies. Normally they used FIAT mechanical components. These buses were very successful in Belgium, Holland and France.
They are still in business today.

Until the mid sixties they used a beautiful, large enameled front emblem.  Later these emblems were made in plastic. Today the logo and the script are painted.

large VAN HOOL front badge

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1955 -  - 1965
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contemporary ad showing the emblem

I guess VAN HOOL was very proud of this emblem

every VAN HOOL front badge was enameled on both sides

VAN HOOL badge with integrated FIAT logo

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1960 - 1965
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more beautiful than any photo:  a painted advertisment of 1963

 The VAN HOOL badge with integrated OM logo is quite rare 

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1960 - 1965
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my favorit badge:  three logos in one

Dimension	20 cm x 14.5  cm
Year	1913
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the FIAT and the OM logo are made with transparent enamel

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

SCRIPPS / USA

Often you see this emblem in a collection. It looks like an automobile emblem. But it is not.
The SCRIPPS MOTOR COMPANY only built marine engines. They  were never in the automobile business,  especially it was not a predecessor of the better known  SCRIPPS - BOOTH.
But don´t throw this emblem away. Just tell this story.

Dimensions	8. cm x 5.0 cm
Year	1917 -
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SCRIPPS marine engines 1917 advertisment

SCRIPPS emblem in a collection

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

FALCON KNIGHT / USA

The FALCON - KNIGHT , a daughter company of the WILLYS Motor Company   was planned to fill the gap between the WHIPPET and the WILLYS-KNIGHT.  The FALCON - KNIGHT - using a six-cylinder sleeve-valve engine - did this well. More than 5,700 cars were sold in 1927 and more than 5,300 in 1928. A few more were assembled in 1929,  than the company was absorbed into the  parent organization.

you have a good chance to find an original

Dimension	4.7 cm
Year	1927 - 1929 -
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flat reverse with out makers mark

detail of a contemporary ad showing the radiator with mascot and emblem

The FALCON -KNIGHT was also exported to France:

my display of KNIGHT emblems

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

FALCON / GERMANY

The German company FALCON of Ober Ramstadt ( Hessen ) was a short lived company ( 1921 - 1926) using the english name of a predatory bird. In fact the German word for falcon is "FALKE".  May be the company hoped to radiate international flair.  In 5 years they sold about 400 cars. It seems that not a single car survives today. The emblem is a very hard to find item.

Dimension	ca 6.0  cm
Year	1921- 1926
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two types of radiators were used

contemporary ad with the slogan: the most distinguished car of its class

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

STERLING KNIGHT / USA

The STERLING - KNIGHT Company  ( one of eight different U.S. car manufacturers with the name "STERLING" ) was founded by "Pete" Sterling  a former chief engineer of the STEARNS Company. The idea was to build a luxury car with a Knight sleeve valve engine.
It was an assembled car, only the engine was home-made using the patented Charles Knight system ( Knight had his name on over 30 different cars like Willys Knight, Lions Knight,  Moline Knight, Stearns Knight, Handley Knight etc. )
The STERLING KNIGHT was a short lived company (1923 - 1926). By the end of 1924 253 cars had been built and 121 cars followed in 1925 and a few more were built in 1926 so every Sterling Knight emblem is a hard to find item.

flat reverse without makers mark

Dimension	4.1 cm x  6.7 cm
Year	1923 - 1924
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This is believed to be an original N.O.S emblem

The round STERLING  KNIGHT emblem is believed to be from the last year (1925/26)

this emblem is from the Lee Roy Hartung collection that was put up for auction in 2011 - see post about Lee Roy Hartung

Dimension	4.1 cm
Year	1925 / 26
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flat reverse without makers mark

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

ALLEN (ALLEN´S) / USA

The ALLEN Iron &  Steel Company ( Philadelphia / Pennsylvania ) was famous for its high quality steel production. (Don´t mix it up with the same named company Allen of Fostoria / Columbus ).
In 1914 they announced the  production of a small automobile in the cyclecar field.
It had a four-cylinder water cooled 20 hp engine.
Only a few cars were sold so car production ceased after one year.

This believed to be an emblem from the ALLEN light car

Dimension	6.5 cm x 4.5 cm
Year	1914
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makers mark from  L.F. GRAMMES & SONS ALLENTOWN, P.A.

The ALLEN light car on a contemporary picture, no  photo of the front known to identify the emblem

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

PLAYBOY / USA

Why not showing a Post-War emblem when it is rare and strange.
In 1946 the Playboy Motor Car Corp of Buffalo, N.Y. presented a compact three seater convertible.                            It had a 40hp four-cylinder Continental engine. It was a short lived company with an output of 97 cars only.
So the emblem is very hard to find.

large hood emblem ( the two holes are not original )

Dimension	14.6 cm x 6.5 cm
Year	1946 - 1951
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you can see the emblem on the hood

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

ROCK FALLS / USA

The ROCK FALLS Manufacturing Company of Sterling / Illinois was founded in 1878.  They were specialized in the funeral industry. In 1919 they decided to build private cars for live passengers. It was an assembled car using a Buda six - cylinder engine.  They had a yearly production of 50 cars.  Car production ceased in 1925 so it is a hard to find emblem.

small radiator emblem made of German silver

Dimension	4.4 cm x  4.1 cm
Year	1919 - 1925
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no makers mark

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

SAXON / USA

The SAXON Motor Company was founded by Hugh Chalmers and Harry W. Ford ( no relation with Henry Ford) in 1913. They offered a two seater with a four-cylinder water cooled engine made by Ferro.
In 1916 they offered also a six-cylinder model with a Continental engine.
Every SAXON radiator emblem is showing  the head of a Saxon with helmet and horns.
Only the last model, the SAXON Duplex showed a different emblem.
In ten years nearly 100,000 cars were sold so you have a good chance to find an original emblem.

I used a flash to make the face better visible

Dimension	5.5 cm x 5.1 cm
Year	1913 - 1918
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reverse with makers mark from BASTIAN BROS. CO ROCHESTER N.Y.

 no transparent face on a late SAXON emblem

SAXON bought emblems from different manufacturers - here: THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO

repro from Harry Pulfer: face not as detailed as it should be and no makers mark

SAXON advertisment of 1916

In 1920 the SAXON DUPLEX joined the SAXON SIX  using a different emblem:

This is believed to be a Harry Pulfer repro emblem

Dimension	5.2 cm x 5.8 cm
Year	1920 -1922
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SAXON advertisment of 1920 showing the new  model "Blackstone Touring"

my SAXON emblem collection displayed on a contemporary ad

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