VAN HOOL / Belgium

The VAN HOOL Company started in 1955 with the construction of bus bodies. Normally they used FIAT mechanical components. These buses were very successful in Belgium, Holland and France.
They are still in business today.

Until the mid sixties they used a beautiful, large enameled front emblem.  Later these emblems were made in plastic. Today the logo and the script are painted.

large VAN HOOL front badge

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1955 -  - 1965
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contemporary ad showing the emblem

I guess VAN HOOL was very proud of this emblem

every VAN HOOL front badge was enameled on both sides

VAN HOOL badge with integrated FIAT logo

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1960 - 1965
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more beautiful than any photo:  a painted advertisment of 1963

 The VAN HOOL badge with integrated OM logo is quite rare 

Dimension	20 cm x 12 cm
Year	1960 - 1965
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my favorit badge:  three logos in one

Dimension	20 cm x 14.5  cm
Year	1960 - 1965
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the FIAT and the OM logo are made with transparent enamel

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

VIBERTI / ITALY

The OFFICINE VIBERTI of Turin / Italy were primarily  commercial vehicle coachbilders.

Their MONOTRAL  ( a double-decker bus ) unitary construction buses qualified the Viberti as a make in its own right.

Most VIBERTISs used FIAT Diesel mecanical elements, though they were also made with LANCIA and OM engines and gearboxes.

rare VIBERTI bus front badge showing traces after decades of  use

Size	7.5 cm x 12.0  cm
Year	1952 - 1961
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bus front badge of the famous MONOTRAL (also a double decker bus )  I have a spare to swap / sell

Size	7.5 cm x 12.0  cm
Year	1952 - 1961
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by far the rarest VIBERTI  bus badge:  OM VIBERTI

Size	7.5 cm x 12.0  cm
Year	1952 - 1961
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VIBERTI  door emblem on a LANCIA truck ( seen in Padova 2020 )

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

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FADIN / IT

FADIN / ITALY   ( 1924 - 1926 )
 

The Fabricca Automobili Officine Trubetzkoy of Milano / Italy offered two types of light cars:
the 925 Normale with a high speed of 80 Kilometers ( 55 Miles/pH) and the type 925 Sport with a high speed of 120 Kilometers ( 82 Miles / pH).
It was a very short lived company (1924 to 1926 ). No production numbers known

They used a radiator emblem very similar to the FIAT emblem of that period (1921 - 1925).
Shape, size and colors are almost exactly the same including the design of the letter "A" (although mirrored compared to the FIAT emblem). I assume that by copying FIAT`s design FADIN intended to benefit from the excellent reputation of Italy´s largest manufacturer at the time

N.O.S.  FADIN radiator emblem

Size	7.0  cm with laurel
Year	1924 - 1926
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left:  FIAT                          right:  FADIN

one of the rare contemporary FADIN advertisments

 

1926 FADIN showing the radiator with emblem

 

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HISPANO-FIAT / SPAIN

In 1931 FIAT bought 50% of the Spanish HISPANO factory which was situated in Guadalajara / Spain.                           Now HISPANO was able to produce the FIAT type 514 in licence.
They sold 300 cars only so this automobile and the emblem are extremly rare !

HISPANO - FIAT radiator emblem

Dimensions	17 cm x  3.8 cm
Year	1931 - 1933
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HISPANO emblem showing the typical FIAT laurel wreath

reverse without makers mark

In 1933 it became a FIAT only, no more Spanish flag. The emblem is showing the well known FIAT emblem in the center.

Dimensions	17 cm x 3.8 cm
Year	1933
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For more beautiful radiator emblems see top right  ( list of car makers).

FIAT special series

FIAT radiator emblem

It is a pleasure to collect FIAT emblems. Even if your are collecting since years, you still find unknown FIAT emblems from special series. Here you see the letters FIAT in triangle with sunbeams behind.
Ever seen this emblem on a car ?

Dimensions	5.4 cm x 4.2 cm
Year	unknown
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backside without makers mark

For more beautiful emblems see top right of this page (list of car makers).

FIAT Special Series

FIAT radiator emblem

This is a special series FIAT emblem, not from massproduced cars. I date it to the late thirties or the beginning fifties. But never seen a picture from a car showing this emblem. Do you know more ?

Dimensions	9.2 cm x 3.7 cm
Year	unknown
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FIAT emblem with a tree

FIAT radiator emblem

I promised you more prewar FIAT emblems. Here is a rare bird.... let´s say a rare tree. Not the symbol FIAT is known for but it is an original prewar emblem, very large, may be from a truck.
It is from the Bregonzio Milano/Italy collection liquidated in 2009

Dimensions	9.9 cm x 5.3  cm
Year	unknown
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FIAT U.S. made

FIAT radiator emblem

From 1910 to 1918 the FIAT automobile of Italy was manufactured in the United States under licence. The factory was in Poughkeepsie, New York [Kimes, Clark].
Of course they had their own radiator emblem with different colors to the European FIAT. Here you see the American FIAT emblem with a really deep shining red. Hard to find item. This one is from the Lee Roy Hartung collection up to auction in november 2011.

Dimensions	10 cm x 6.5  cm
Year	1910
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FIAT

FIAT radiator emblem 1932

There are so much variations of the FIAT emblem so I`m just starting with this:

It is the 1932 emblem from the type 522. Not so easy to find but still relatively inexpensive.

Dimensions	5 cm
Year	1932
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