LE ZEBRE / FRANCE

 LE ZEBRE /  PUTEAUX  / FRANCE    (1909 -1931)

Around 1907–1908, the talented automobile designers Jules Salomon and Jacques Bizet met. Joseph Lamy was also a man from the very beginning. Incidentally, Lamy later founded the equally renowned AMILCAR brand together with Emile Akar. This meeting led to the creation of the “LE ZEBRE” (Zebra) brand in 1909. That same year, Salomon designed a small four-cylinder car that was produced in considerable numbers until 1914. After World War II, vehicles with larger engines were manufactured. Production ceased in 1931. A total of about 9,500 vehicles were produced.

At first, the vehicles had a brass emblem on the radiator grille, consisting of several circles with the name “LE ZEBRE” integrated into them:

 

Size	10.5 cm
Year	1909 - 1914
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LE ZEBRE radiator seen in Musée National / Molsheim / France

 

Size	18.0 cm x 5.0 cm
Year	1923 - 1925
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In 1925 the French OMNIA magazine is presenting this LE ZEBRE with  emblem with wings

 

 

 

 

Size	5.8 cm x 5.8 cm
Year	unknown
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backside without makers mark

 

So far, I haven't found a single photo of a vehicle showing the square emblem pictured above. However, it appears in many brochures and documents, as shown below:

 

Here is a color display that also shows the square emblem in blue:

1924 advertisement in OMNIA showing the new emblem ( top right )

 

 

 

Size	c. 7.0 cm
Year	1925 - 1930
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1926 / 1927 advertisement

 

 

Here is a LE ZEBRE Type C registered in Berlin (IA 30605), which clearly displays the emblem shown above ( photo collection Thomas Ulrich )

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

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