SPERBER / NAW GERMANY

NAW / SPERBER / HAMELN / GERMANY  ( 1907 - 1914 )

The NORDDEUTSCHE AUTOMOBIL- WERKE  (NAW) started in Hameln on Weser in 1907 car production with a car called COLIBRI.

 

This brass emblem was probably cut out of the radiator, as the slightly irregular border indicates.

 

1907 COLIBRI with emblem between the doors. This place is not at all illogical, because even on carriages there was often a coat of arms on or next to the doors, although not from the carriage manufacturer, but from the family of the owners (photo collection Klaas Dierks )

1908 - 1910 COLIBRI  with a small 2-cylinder engine and rectangular brass emblem

 

five men in a 1911 SPERBER

  NAW  built light cars and was relatively successful so they offered a second type, the SPERBER in 1911, also named after a bird (German for sparrowhawk).
On this detailled brass emblem you see a SPERBER,  not an eagle.
This emblem is one of the oldest German car emblems still in existence.

emblem made of brass

Size	14.0 cm x 10.0 cm
Year	1911 - 1913
Estimate

Contemporary photo showing the emblem between the doors :

look at the door !   (photo collection Klaas Dierks)

  In 1913 / 1914 the SPERBER, type C was redesigned. In particular, it received a new radiator, now with an enameled  emblem, which showed the three letters NAW in white on a blue background:

NAW radiator seen in a German museum in Hameln / Lower Saxony

contemporary ad showing the radiator with emblem

 The First World War brought civil  production to a standstill. It was also not resumed after 1918, so this car is particularly rare.

1914 NAW / SPERBER with licence plate from Magdeburg / Saxony-Anhalt

 

NAW was also present in the Nordic countries before WWI:

 

to the left a NAW seen in Denmark in 1912

NAW radiator with traces of more than 100 years, seen in a Danish collection:

thank you Viklit for the photo

If you want to see more photos and to read more about NAW / SPERBER vehicles click for  the fabulous website from Michael Schlenger here.

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