LAFFLY / FRANCE

LAFFLY / BOULOGNE sur SEINE / ASNIERES   /  FRANCE  (1898 - 1952)

LAFFLY was a French manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles. However, the company began in 1898 with a small car equipped with a single-cylinder engine. Starting around 1912, LAFFLY specialized in vehicles and equipment for road construction and firefighting. It also offered a wide range of trucks with payloads ranging from 0.75 to 10 metric tons. LAFFLY also built tractors.

LAFFLY's first car is said to have featured the following emblem. “A.LAFFLY” stands for the company's founder, Alexandre Laffly: 

Size	5.0 cm
Year	c. 1898
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 I photographed the following emblem years ago in France; it was on a fire truck built in 1914:

 

Size	c. 12 cm x 5 cm
Year	1914
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Size	13.2 cm x 6.5 cm
Year	1923 - 1925
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LAFFLY type D  1925 (seen in a French museum)

 

 

 

 

 

LAFFLY radiator with a relatively simple emblem design. Stylistically, it appears to date from the 1930s. I haven't found any concrete evidence of this yet:

 

 

Size	c. 10 cm x 6 cm
Year	c. 1930
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 In 1932, the French magazine AUTOMOBILIA TRANSPORTS featured a LAFFLY bus on its cover:

 

 

 

small and large emblem (pre 1939)

Size	various sizes
Year	pre 1939
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Several generations of LAFFLY emblems on a radiator

 According to my research, this emblem was on the TYP V 15 T (1939 - 1940)

 

Size	10.4 cm x 4.6 cm
Year	1939 - 1940
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After World War II, LAFFLY trucks were distributed through the GFA ( = GENERALE FRANCAISE AUTOMOBILES), an association of 5 brands ( BERNARD, DELAHAYE, SIMCA, UNIC)

 

1951 aluminium badge for LAFFLY Type BSS 163

Size	c. 20.0 cm x 10.0 cm
Year	1951
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 LAFFLY even exported to Italy with a special emblem:

For more information about BERNARD camion and its emblems please click here.                                     

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

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