MAXWELL / USA

 MAXWELL / NEW YORK / DETROIT   / USA ( 1904 - 1925 )

This company started as MAXWELL - BRISCOE  in 1904, founded by Jonathan Maxwell and Benjamin Briscoe. They offered a conventional flat-twin runabouts.  For a time MAXWELL was considered one of the  three top  automobile firms of America along with BUICK and FORD.
In 1914 BRISCOE left this firm to start on his own. MAXWELL continued to make inexpensive four - cylinders with side valves engines  and three-speed boxes.  
In 1923 Chrysler bought the MAXWELL factory and the last MAXWELL was sold in 1925.

Here I present you a very early and quite large MAXWELL radiator emblem, showing the colors of the Stars and Stripes. You have to look years to find an original emblem.

MAXWELL radiator badge

Size	7.1 cm x 5.6 cm
Year	1915 - 1917
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Flat (!) backside of the original 1915 emblem with makers mark, not clearly visible:
It says: THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG  NEWARK. 

c. 1915 contemporary photo showing on the left radiator the emblem to the right

1912 MAXWELL MACOTTE emblem in as found condition

backside without makers mark

MAXWELL Special

Size	6.4 cm x 6.0 cm
Year	1912
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MAXWELL radiator emblem

Size	5.9 cm x 4.2 cm
Year	1918
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backside without makers mark

original MAXWELL radiator . No enamel !

Size	5.3 cm x 5.8 cm
Year	1920 - 1922
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The most common MAXWELL radiator emblem

 

Size	5.2 cm x 5.2 cm
Year	1922 -1925
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backside without makers mark

 

 

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

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