RABA / Hungary

RABA  / HUNGARIA 

The Hungarian Company RABA is still in the automotive industry, well known for  products like chassis, axles, autoseats etc..
Before WWI they bought a licence from the Czech PRAGA Motor company to build the RABA GRAND. It is unlikely that they sold more than 1,000 (private ) cars, so this emblem is a very hard to find item. After WWI they specialized in trucks.

large RABA GRAND  radiator emblem

Size	9.5 cm
Year	1912 - 1914
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reverse without makers mark

There was also a red version with white letters and a black border:

1919 advertisement showing the emblem

                            Photo  from the vorkriegs-klassiker-rundschau.blog collection showing two RABA GRAND   

cutout showing the emblem and a mascot

 

 In 1934, there was also a collaboration with the German truck manufacturer KRUPP, as this advertisement shows. In the lower right corner, you can see the round emblem mounted on these vehicles, bearing the inscription “RABA KRUPP.”

 

Do you see the RABA KRUPP emblem?

 

 

I used AI to cut out and color the RABA KRUPP emblem. Here's the result. Now all that's missing is the original.

 

 

 

 Very few RABA vehicles have survived. But there was a drawing of the RABA 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:

 

 

 

 

 

 In the nineteentwenties the emblem became smaller. 

The background was white, while the letters and the border became blue:

 

 

 

Size	5.7 cm
Year	c.1925
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