HACKETT Motor Car Co. / Jackson (Michigan) and Grand Rapids (Michigan) / USA (1916 - 1919)
It's that time again, and I can show you a super rare emblem, of which, to my knowledge, there has never been an emblem or a photo showing an original emblem! It belongs to the short-lived automobile company HACKETT Motor Car Co., founded by Mansell Hackett, which manufactured vehicles in Jackson, Michigan, USA, from 1916 to 1919 in the former ARGO Motor Co. factory.
The company later moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to Wikipedia, only 118 vehicles were built in total, which is what makes the emblem so rare.
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Size
| c. 5.0 cm x 6.0 cm
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Year
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1916 - 1919 |
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| 1917 advertisement ( source de.Wkipedia.org ) |
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| HACKETT radiator emblem as found |
To my knowledge not a single Hackett vehicle has survived. But there was a drawing of a HACKETT 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. Here, it helped to reconstruct the original colors.
For more emblems see older posts or top right ( list of car makers ).
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