AUTO TRACTION / BELGIUM

AUTO TRACTION  / ANVERS / BELGIUM   ( 1920 - 1930 )
 

The Belgian AUTO TRACTION was founded in 1920 to build heavy trucks based on the models of CHENARD & WALCKER which owned part of the shares. The company badge was a rising sun.
In 1923 the first AUTO TRACTION bus appeared. In 1925 MINERVA bought from CHENARD & WALCKER all shares. From then on you could read on the emblem AUTO - TRACTION and also " MANUFACTURED BY MINERVA MOTORS  ANTWERRP - BELGIUM ". Production ceased in 1930.

Emblem used before 1925. Here an extraction from a spare parts catalog.

Until recently, I had never seen an original one. Now, at last, I can show one off—albeit with a noticeable patina.

Size	7.1 cm
Year	1920 - 1925
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backside without makers mark

In the following version, the connection to MINERVA is clearly highlighted:

Size	7.1 cm
Year	1925 - 1930
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backside of an AUTO TRACTION emblem without makers mark

very beautiful advertisement for SKF and AUTOTRACTION in Englebert magazine ( 1924)

1925 AUTO TRACTION bus manufactured by MINERVA

 

There was another version were you can read  on the emblem: MINERVA MOTORS only.

So, over the course of its 10-year history, there have been at least three different radiator emblems! 

 

 

 

1926 French advertisement

 

Very fine collection of MINERVA and MINERVA related emblems:

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