D.F.P. / FRANCE

 

 DORIOT, FLANDRIN & PARANT ( = DFP ) COURBEVOIE / FRANCE  ( 1908 - 1927 ) 

 In 1908, the former Peugeot employees Auguste Doriot and Ludovic Flandrin, who had previously managed the Doriot-Flandrin company, founded the new company Doriot, Flandrin et Parant in Courbevoie together with the brothers Alexandre and Jules-René Parant. The brand name was DFP. After the First World War, the company was unable to repeat its previous sales successes. Due to financial difficulties, production ended in 1926 and Voiturettes Th. Lafitte took over the company.

The first voiturettes had a  1-cylinder engines, which were followed by a 4-cylinder type in the 1908 model year. A “Chapuis - Dornier” power unit served as  engine. The French DFP was also marketed in England by Walter O. Bentley, the initiator of BENTLEY,  the still famous English car brand. 

 The company name was sometimes written with dots between the letters and sometimes without:

This is supposed to be a radiator from the first DFP with 1-cylinder engine

 

    The well-known emblem with the running greyhound appeared before the First World War:

Here the dog is still running through the letters:

Size	9.3 cm x 6.0 cm
Year	1912 -
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same emblem but a more simple radiator design ( seen in France in 2002 )

 

 To my knowledge the stylish, enameled emblem appeared in 1913 showing a dog running above the three letters:

 

On the emblem you can read: FIDELE ET VITE  = loyal and fast, obviously the dog should represent exactly that

Size	9.3  cm x 6.2 cm
Year	1913 - 1925
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The French magazine OMNIA was showing the radiator with the new emblem in 1913

At the bottom of the emblem you can read  the production location COURBEVOIE.  There should also be emblems where it says LONDON. However, I have not seen any so far.

 

 

 

my D.F.P. presentation

 

 For me this is a perfect advertisement:

 

1920 ad in the OMNIA magazine

 

 The last radiator emblem became more simple; just a round badge with modernized letters DFP

 

now the dog behind the letter

 

Size	6.0 cm
Year	1926 - 1927
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Source: Archives de la Somme Publicité automobile GUER 1321 media 1 lot 1

 

 There are repros like this on the market:

 

                        Reproductions are easy to recognize. Above the original, below the repro:

The DFP company was taken over by Théophile Schneider. Here you can see the Th. Lafitte emblems !

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

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