AUSTRALIAN SIX

AUSTRALIAN SIX radiator emblem

Not much is known about the AUSTRALIAN SIX company that lived from 1918 to 1926.
It was an assembled car using standard components. It was eqipped with an Rutenber engine made in Chicago / USA.
Their slogan was: Made in Australia,  by Australians, for Australia.
May be 500 cars were sold.

There were two different emblems:

On one one you can read: ARMOR SYDNEY.
On the other:                      BUILT ASHFIELD SYDNEY

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Year	1918 - 1926
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CID BABY / FRANCE

 CID radiator emblem

CID that means:  Construction Industrielles Dijon.
Their best selling car was the BABY that had a one cylinder engine with only 8 hp.
The company lived from 1912 to 1914 only. You have to look years to find this emblem.

Size	5.3 cm x 8.3 cm
Year	1912 - 1914
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backside of an original CID emblem ( no makers mark as usual in France )

emblem after soft restoration

 

 

Very few CID vehicles have survived. But there was a drawing of a round CID emblem, which was made by the swedish boy Gustav Moeller back in the 1920s. Gustav 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:

 

 

 

 

 

famous CID 1-cylinder engine ( for sale:  just write a mail to emblemcollection@gmail.com)

 

 

 

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RYJAN / FRANCE

RYJAN radiator emblem

There is not much 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 cm
Year	1920 - 1926
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STANDARD STEEL / USA

STANDARD radiator emblem from the L.R. Hartung collection

Railway cars were the principal products of the STANDARD STEEL CAR COMPANY during the summer of 1913 when the firm acknowledged that its new two million factory was for a brand new product: an automobile.
"Monarch of the mountains" became a company slogan.
They started in 1915 with 1,133 cars sold.  STANDARD´s best year was 1917 when 2,318 cars were built [Kimes,Clark]. In the last year they sold 483 cars.

Dimensions	5.4 cm
Year	1915 - 1923
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Here you see a nice enameled emblem:

Of course this is a bad reproduction:

 Backside of the original emblem:

STELLITE / GB

STELLITE radiator emblem

This was a 1,100 cc economy car made by a subsidiary of WOLSELEY [Georgano].
While WWI they were built with a wooden frame. By 1920 the make had given way to WOLSELEY`s own ohc ten [Georgano].  You have to look years for an original STELLITE emblem.

Dimensions	7.0 cm x 4.5 cm
Year	1913 - 1919
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                                         I had to buy the whole radiator to present the emblem:

contemporary ad of a 1913 STELLITE light car

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ROLLAND & PILAIN / FRANCE

ROLLAND PILAIN radiator emblem

Above you see the latest and rarest enameled radiator emblems from ROLLAND & PILAIN.
They started  in TOURS / FRANCE. That´s why you see the towers of the town of TOURS.
ROLLAND & PILAIN have been in business from 1906 to 1931.

Size	5.0 cm
Year	1930 - 1931
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The back of an original has to look like this:

Source: Publicités automobiles : Rolland et Pilain GUER1399 Lot 1 16 Archives de la Somme

close up showing the last and rarest ROLAND PILAIN emblem

1911 ROLLAND PILAIN

1924 advertisement showing the famous emblem

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LION / USA

LION MOTOR CAR CO. radiator emblem

The LION MOTOR COMPANY was founded in 1910. The LION was powered by a 40 hp  four cylinder engine. The company slogan was: " The LION Forty runs like sixty ".  On june 2, 1912, the factory burned to the ground. One fireman was killed, and more than 150 cars inside were destroyed, so too the prototype of the LION Thirty. Damage was estimated at $ 350,000 ;  the company was insured for only  $ 180,000 and in mid october of 1912 recievership came  [Kimes, Clark].

Dimensions	5.5 cm
Year	1910 - 1913
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Above you see a nice repro from Harry Pulfer, made in the sixties. If you have to sell an original one, please contact me.

SUMMIT / AUSTRALIA

SUMMIT radiator emblem

The SUMMIT was an assembled car using a 4 cylinder engine. It was built in Sydney / Australia from 1922 to 1926.  On the emblem you can read: ADVANCE AUSTRALIA

Dimensions	7.2 cm  x 5.6 cm
Year	1922 - 1926
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Here you see a nice reproduction made by Harry Pulfer  in the sixties:

BENZ GAGGENAU / GERMANY

BENZ GAGGENAU radiator emblem

The famous German BENZ - that merged with Mercedes in 1926 -  bought the GAGGENAU truck factory in 1912. From then on they built their own trucks under the name: BENZ GAGGENAU.
They had their production peak while WWI.  It is a hard to find item.

Size	7.9 cm (emblem only)
Year	1912
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Here you see see another version. The colors are not separated with a dam  from each other as usual. It is a more complicated technique also used by BUGATTI.

the BENZ GAGGENAU emblem was patented in 1919

funny advertisement (1921)

                                     Beware: this is an reproduction

advertisment of 1922 showing the emblem

                                    Here you see an original GAGGENAU emblem
                                     before it became BENZ  GAGGENAU

another brass emblem where you can read: Sueddeutsche Automobile Gaggenau

the first and last enameled GAGGENAU emblem

Size	c. 12.0 x 5.0 cm
Year	1909 - 1910
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1922 advertisement

rare BENZ GAGGENAU hub cap

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PILOT / GERMANY

PILOTWAGEN AG BANNEWITZ  / Dresden / Germany

 There were at least three different companies with the name "PILOT": one in the USA, one in Great Britain and finally one in Germany, which is the one we are talking about here. The latter was active from 1923 to 1928 .  To my knowledge there are only two cars left.

The 1924 radiator emblem was a simple round brass plate with five letters saying PILOT. The only distinctive feature is that the letter I is integrated in the letter P:

Size	7.0 cm x 7.0 cm
Year	1925- 1928
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backside without makers mark

one of the rare contemporary photos  (1925)

 

     This is a (bad) repro from GOEDE / Germany made with the wrong colors:

There was also an enameled radiator script:

script before restoration

contemporary ad decorated with the restored script

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