ROSENGART / FRANCE

 ROSENGART / FRANCE  ( 1928 - 1955 )

Lucien Rosengart started his car production in 1928 with a licence of the famous AUSTIN Seven, a small four cylinder car.  In 1933 he bought a licence  of the German ADLER, a front-drive car.
Later the ROSENGART Super traction was built with a CITROEN engine.
After WWII  Mr. Rosengart  offered a car with a small flat twin engine called ARIETTE.
But he failed to compete with PEUGEOT, RENAULT and PANHARD.
The factory was closed in 1955.

Nomen est omen:  you see a rose on every ROSENGART emblem.

Size	5.5 cm x  3.6cm
Year	1933
Estimate

ROSENGART radiator emblem for the LR 4  1938

ROSENGART Supertraction (1932) hood ornament with enameled emblem

Size	emblem only: 5.5 cm x 3.6cm
Year	1932
Estimate	( for the whole mascot )

Rosengart Supertraction advertisement showing the mascot with emblem

The best and most expensive ROSENGART automobile was the second generation of the Supertraction:

ROSENGART SUPERTRACTION ( seen in Paris in 2023)

The SUPERTRACTION had an illuminated hood emblem made of plastic. This was a faulty design because the bulb melted the plastic due to the heat.:

the front emblem made of plastic is always melted due to the heat from the light

In 1928, ROSENGART, DELAHAYE and CHENARD & WALCKER jointly published an advertisement (probably to save costs) on which both company logos appeared:

 

Rosengart not only built automobiles, but also two-wheelers and much more. Here is an advertisement from 1929 showing such a two-wheeler:

 

 

As far as I know, this Rosengart engine emblem was only painted.

 

 

1924 advertisement

 

Below, I would like to present a particularly interesting ROSENGART emblem. It is slimmer and larger than all other known ROSENGART emblems:

 

 

This emblem was produced using a screen-printing technique; the colors are not separated by dams as is usually the case. The red color used here is opaque, unlike the transparent red typically found on all ROSENGART emblems.

 

Size	7.3 cm x 4.0 cm
Year	unknown
Estimate

 

 

 

 

the backside was also enameled to avoid tensions when cooling down the emblem after firing the enamel

 

If you want to visit a ROSENGART museum you have to go to Germany not to France !  Near Cologne  ( Köln ) you find  a special ROSENGART exposition directed by Mr. and Mrs. Bonk. I can recommand it !

 

inside the German Rosengart museum

 

 Did you know that there was also a ROSENGART race car?

 

 

ROSENGART race car, seen in Reims / France in 2025

 For more information about the English licensor AUSTIN please click here!

 

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