BRENNABOR / BRANDENBURG / GERMANY ( 1907 - 1933 )
Founded in 1871 by Carl Reichstein the Brennabor - Werke were well known for baby buggies, bicycles and motorcycles. The plant was situated south of Berlin in Brandenburg / Havel.
Car production started in 1907. They began with a three-wheeler, called Brennaborette. It had a Fafnir engine. In 1909 they built their first 4-wheeler.
In the nineteentwenties for a short time Brennabor became the biggest German car maker.
The peak years were 1927 and 1928. The last Brennabor car was built in 1933 but the firm continued to make bicycles and small motorcycles To my knowledge the first enameled radiator emblem was used after WW1 in 1919.
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1912 Brennabor firewall emblem |
Size
| 8 cm x 5 cm |
Year | 1912 |
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1914 advertisment still without emblem
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the first enameled radiator emblem was flat |
Size
| 6.2 cm |
Year | 1919 - 1922 |
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A few years after the first use of the round emblem showing the letter " B " the design was patented:
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1921 patent document |
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contemporary BRENNABOR photo ( collection Thomas Ulrich )
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1922 advertisment showing the famous emblem |
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Brennabor of the mid-twenties |
In books, magazines, on the Internet, everywhere you can read that BRENNABOR was the largest German car manufacturer until the mid-1920s. I therefore took the trouble to check this and put the result in my own statistics. In doing so, I referred to the other very large German manufacturer, namely OPEL, for comparison, because all other manufacturers had even much smaller production figures. The result is indeed that Brennabor was the largest German manufacturer from 1920 to 1924.
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statistic made by the author Claus H. Wulff, for more information about OPEL click here
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In 1924 the emblem became vaulted:
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the two brackets on top of the emblem are original to fix it ( repros don´t have the brackets )
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Size
| 5.6 cm x 5.0 cm |
Year | 1923 - 1927 |
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backside of two originals left: flat emblem right: vaulted emblem
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1927 advertisment saying: Your most ardent wish
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the new 6-cylinder of 1928 with motor - meter, emblem and script
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1927 advertisment for the 6-cylinder BRENNABOR
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BRENNABOR 6 Cylinder radiator in my collection
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1927 / 1928 bochure showing the new radiator
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Brennabor hearse |
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1931 brochure for Brennabor commercial vehicles |
In 1928 the new BRENNABOR Juwel showed a complex made new radiator emblem:
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5.8 cm x 7.7 cm with frame
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1928 - 1932
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Pay attention, there is a very bad repro made by Goede / Germany:
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left: repro right: original |
left: repro right: original with makers mark from
W. DEUMER LUEDENSCHEID
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1928 advertisment showing the new emblem |
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once upon a time it had been a Brennabor Juwel emblem |
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another BRENNABOR JUWEL radiator emblem waiting for restoration
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The Brennabor Juwel had a factory radiator mascot. If there is one for sale don´t hesitate to offer it to me |
The last change of the BRENNABOR emblem was in 1933. The new emblem showed the weapon of the town of Brandenburg where the car was made:
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this is the rarest of all Brennabor emblems ( one year only ) |
Size
| 6.4 cm x 6.0 cm |
Year | 1933
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1933 brochure advertising the new model |
For more emblems see older posts or top right ( list of car makers ).
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one of the best emblem presentation ever seen. Thank you Claus
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