De DION BOUTON

DE DION BOUTON 

Size	13.5 cm x 12.9 cm
Year	1893 - 1903
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The French car maker DE DION BOUTON started early into the automobile business. In 1883 they produced steam cars. They launched their first petrol engines ten years later. At first they were installed in tricycles.
Here you see their first emblem, it is from a tricycle.. The emblem is showing a wheel with wings inside and letters for the type. DE DION´S swansong was a straight-eight  - the 16CV with 2.5 litres and overhead valves in 1932 [Georgano].

Then there was another brass emblem like this:

Size	12 cm
Year	1904 - 1907
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In Germany, the De Dion Bouton was built under license in Aachen, where they used this emblem in the DeDion style:

photo collection W. Spitzbarth

 

 The following advertisement shows another CUDELL emblem:

 

on the emblem you can read: CUDELL PATENT DE DION BOUTON (advertisment collection Michael Schlenger)

1908 DE DION BOUTON introduced the famaous enameled radiator emblem that we find on the radiator until 1914.  Don´t buy a repro. There are still enough fine originals. If you need an original one just ask me.

radiator emblem with winged wheel

Size	6.0 cm
Year	1908 - 1914
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backside of an original emblem

DE DION BOUTON badge with contemporary art deco ad

After WW 1 DE DION BOUTON restarted with a new model and a new radiator without emblem. Only a script was mounted on the grill.

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

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