FRANKLIN / USA

In 1902 Herbert H. Franklin together with  the  engineer John Wilson founded the FRANKLIN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY in Syracuse N.Y.
They built the world´s most successful air-cooled cars before WW 1.
Their slogan was: AURA VINCIT (that means: "Air conquers")
In 1902 they sold 13 cars. Their best year was 1929 when they produced 14,432 cars.
In 1933 they offered a luxury V-12 engine, only up to 200 cars were built with this engine.  The next year FRANKLIN went bankrupt.


To my knowledge the first enamelled car emblem was mounted on the hood  in 1921, before there were scripts only.

Here  is the first of 10 different FRANKLIN emblems. It looks like an emblem for an electric car but FRANKLIN never built them.

FRANKLIN radiator emblem

Dimension	4.5 cm x  7.9 cm
Year	1922
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FRANKLIN emblem with AURA VINCIT slogan. That means:  air (cooling ) is winning (sic est !)

Dimension	7.9 cm x 4.0 cm
Year	1923 -  1924
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they screwed the emblem on the grill as there was no water behind

One year only emblem from the Series 11

Dimension	4.2 cm x  8.2 cm
Year	1925
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Here is the first round FRANKLIN emblem. FA is for FRANKLIN AUTOMOBILES

Dimension	4.8 cm
Year	1927
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FA emblem made in German silver

Dimension	5.1 cm
Year	unknown
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round FRANKLIN emblem

Dimensions	6.3 cm
Year	1928 -  1929
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This emblem is smaller and there is no chrome

Dimensions	5.5 cm
Year	unknown
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chromed round FRANKLIN emblem  - reverese with maker´s mark from DL AULD

Dimension	4.9 cm
Year	unknown
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large FRANKLIN crank hole emblem

Dimension	8.4 cm x 10.2 cm
Year	1933 - 34
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another crank hole emblem (property of the Murray Shears collection)

Dimension	8.4 cm  x 10.2 cm
Year	1933 - 34
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For more beautiful car emblems see older posts or  top right (list of car makers)