FULMINA / GERMANY

 

FULMINA / MANNHEIM / GERMANY  ( 1911 - 1926 )

Have you ever heard of the vehicle manufacturer FULMINA from Mannheim, Germany? 
The company only existed for a short time, from 1912 to 1922, and produced and sold very few vehicles during that period.  The word FULMINA comes from Latin and means: lightning. A good name for a manufacturer that has made a name (and sales) for itself with the production of oil-fired heating systems.

Finally I´m able to  present an original radiator emblem, never seen before.

About 400 vehicles were built in total, and none have survived, making the emblem correspondingly rare: 

 

      I guess this emblem was used on V - shaped radiators after World War I.

Size	c. 6.0 cm x 6.5 cm
Year	1918- 1926
Estimate

 

One of the first advertisements I was able to find appeared in 1914 in Motor magazine, published by Braunbeck:

 

 I found further evidence in the 1914 yearbook of the  German Royal Automobile club ( KAC):

 

 

The automobile manufacturing company obviously started with a lot of enthusiasm, because I was able to find a third advertisement from 1914:

 

The vehicles are offered as luxury vehicles, at a time when every vehicle was a luxury. 

FULMINA vehicles were also sold in Scandinavia.:

 

FULMINA seen in Denmark in 1921

In 1921, Karrosserie Werke G. Drauz in Heilbronn advertised that they manufactured bodies for FULMINA:

 

If want to learn more about FULMINA and other car manufacturer made in Mannheim / Germany just buy the book MANNOPOLIS (ISBN 978-3-86476-167-6 ) or click here.   I really recommend it!

 

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

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