AGA / BERLIN / GERMANY ( 1919 - 1928 )
Finally I´am able to present you an enameled emblem from AGA / Germany built in my home town Berlin.
In 1919 the AGA started their car production with a small 1.4 liter with
4-cylinder 16 hp engine. In the beginning twenties they sold quite well,
offering a better 20hp engine. So there were a lot of AGA taxi cabs in
Berlin. The last AGA was the AGA - SPEZIAL still proudly presented at
the International Automobil exhibition in Berlin in 1928.
But there was never a regular production and AGA closed the car production still the same year.
I
was told that this emblem may be a advertisng emblem. I don´t think so
because of it´s size. 5.4 cm x 7.0 cm are a normal size for a radiator
emblem. Promotional emblems such as brooches or pins are always much
smaller.
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AGA emblem |
Size
| 5.4 cm x 7.0 cm |
Year | 1928
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the last AGA advertisment for the AGA -SPEZIAL, published in 1928
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the AGA logo was patented in 1920
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AGA on the Motor Show / Berlin 1921
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1922 advertisment: the complete AGA program
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1923 AGA with angular fenders and v - shaped radiator ( photo collection Thomas Ulrich ).
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1921 advertisment showing the AGA with angular fenders
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1923 AGA car used to advertise new bumpers (called: "Federstahl-Puffer" )
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1924 advertisment AGA in Egypt
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AGA with v- shaped radiator and brass emblems
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1924 AGA advertisment showing 3 types of AGA cars
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AGA seen in a German museum in 2020
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1926 advertisment with red emblem, although this color was never on any radiator emblem
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1925 AGA with conventional fenders (photo collection Thomas Ulrich ).
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1925 advertisment, again showing the emblem in red
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AGA merchandising in the nineteentwenties: something to smoke and something to write
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AGA brass emblem mounted in the middle of the radiator when the v - shaped radiator was gone on the type C 6/20
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Although
numerous AGA vehicles were used as cabs, especially in their home city
of Berlin, photos of AGA cabs are extremely difficult to find, so I am
pleased to show one here:
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photo: collection Claus H. Wulff
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my AGA type C 16/20 radiator
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to my knowledge the AGA hubcap was not modified during the 10-year production period of the vehicles.
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not dated, but one of the last AGA ads
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Built
in 1919, the building still exists. It was even listed as a historical
monument in the nineteen-nineties. I took the photo in 2023. |
I made some research about the AGA history. And here I can show you why AGA had no chances to survive. When you buy potatoes you look at the price per kilogramm. But you can also do this when you a buy a car. And here is the astonishing result:
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1 kilogramm FORD Model T = 1.66 Reichsmark 1 kilogramm AGA = 6.69 Reichsmark ! Any questions ?
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In
Sweden the AGA car was marketed under the name TV = Thulinwerken.
Around 300 vehicles were sold. This car also had a triangle emblem but
the other way round:
If you want to know all about the AGA history just buy the book from Kai-Uwe Merz:
Der AGA- Wagen, published in 2011.
For more emblems see older posts or top right of this page ( list of car makers ).
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