GRADE / BRUECK / GERMANY ( 1921 - 1926 )
The German Hans Grade, who lived near Berlin, in Brück ( Brueck today Borkheide), was famous for his aircraft.
Because of the restrictions after WW I he designed an unconventional two-seater car with a boat shaped body.
It had an air-cooled 2-cylinder 2-stroke engine of 800cc capacity and final drive was by chaine to a rear axle without differential. May be 2,000 cars were built so you have to look years for an emblem.
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| large emblem made of brass |
| Size | 12.0 cm |
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| Year | 1921 - 1926 |
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| GRADE saying "Hallo" ( photo collection Thomas Ulrich ) |
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| GRADE seen in a German museum |
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| contemporary photo GRADE automobile made in Borkheide near Berlin ( collection Claus H. Wulff) |
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| What a crazy ad: a grasshopper advertising a vehicle. But why this animal? Who buys a GRADE because of this ad ? Unfortunately, we can no longer ask the artist KUPFERBERG, who signed the drawing. |
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| It makes fun to drive a GRADE |
There was also the idea to build the GRADE car in Austria. It is not sure if production ever started.
Nevertheless the Austrian GRADE had another emblem. May be this enameled emblem was a prototype.
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| top left: AUSTRO GRADE advertisment |
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| description of the GRADE two-stroke-engine |
Very few GRADE vehicles have survived. But there was a drawing of the GRADE 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:
For more emblems see older posts or top right ( list of carmakers ).
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