ORYX / GERMANY

ORYX / BERLIN / GERMANY  ( 1907 - 1922 )
 

The German " Berliner Motorwagen Fabrik "  started car production under the name ORYX in 1907.
The first ORYX car had a 1555 ccm 4-cylinder engine and the radiator showed a round emblem ( see next two photos ).  The factory merged with Duerkopp in 1909 but ORYX built cars under  their own name further.  Now there was a kidney - shaped radiator emblem.

There was also a light commercial car called ERYX ( I don´t know if there was a special ERYX emblem ).           

It is doubtful wether there was a car production after WWI.  Altogether less than 600 cars were built.

round ORYX brass emblem with a half laurel wreath

contemporary photo showing the radiator with round emblem (photo collection Klaas Dierks )

close-up of the radiator

restored ORYX emblem (collection G.B.)

Size	c. 10.0 x 7.0 cm
Year	1909 - 1914
Estimate

1913 advertisment showing radiator with emblem

1908 advertisement for the ERYX ( ORYX ) commercial light car

another rarity:  original ORYX hubcap

1914 ORYX ( photo in Braunbeck Motor Magazine )

1921 ALLGEMEINE AUTOMOBIL - ZEITUNG advertisement for ORYX and much more

ORYX car owned by the famous actor Manfred Krug ( 1937 - 2016 )

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

 

 

 Finally there was an oval emblem. But I don´t know where and when it was used. Do you have an idea ?

 

 

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