BUCCIALI / PARIS / FRANCE

 

BUCCIALI / PARIS / FRANCE  ( 1922 -1933 ) 

The BUCCIALI Automobile company was founded in Paris by the brothers Angelo and Paul-Albert Bucciali, who had become wealthy as aircraft manufacturers and  railroad shareholders.

The company initially started under the abbreviation BUC before the full family name became the brand name.

The vehicles were extremely sophisticated and complicated to build and correspondingly expensive. 

There were models with 8-cylinder engines or even with a 16-cylinder engine if you believe the last brochure.

Around 150 vehicles were built in 11 years but the exact number is not known.

Size	different sizes
Year	1922 - 1933
Estimate

Photo source: Publicités automobiles Bucciali - GUER1298  Archives de la Somme

If you analyze the photos and ads, you come up with at least 4 different versions of the BUCCIALI emblem; astonishing considering that only 150 examples were built:

BUCCIALI also tried to sell vehicles In Germany. It is not known if any car was really sold....

1931 German advertisement

on top of this ad you can see the stork emblem

On the left and right sides of the bonnet, some models had oversized storks as emblems:

The use of the stork as an emblem is said to be a reference to Paul-Albert Bucciali`s work in aviation.

BUCCIALI with silver and golden stork ( seen in Paris Retromobile 2024 )

BUCCIALI brochure showing the design of the last radiator emblem:

 Photo source: Publicités automobiles Bucciali - GUER1298 Archives de la Somme 

Only very few vehicles have survived. But there was a drawing of the BUCCIALI stork emblem, which was made by the swedish boy Gustaf Moeller back in the 1920s. Gustaf 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:

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

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