IMP

Imp Cyclecar Co. (1913-1914)
Auburn, Indiana

This is a restored Imp hood script    acdm

The Imp Cyclecar Company was a subsidiary of the W. H. McIntyre Company (see McIntyre). The Imp was a small, lightweight cyclecar designed by William B. Stout, who later designed the Stout Scarab motor car and the Ford trimotor airplane.

The Imp was powered by a 15 hp vee-twin air-cooled engine with friction transmission and belt drive. The Imp had no axles and the wheels were mounted on transverse springs. A four-cylinder model followed in 1914. 

Imp production began in 1913 at ten cars a month but increased to 50 cars a month by mid-1914. Total Imp production was several hundred cars but the Imp cyclecar was a distraction for the W. H. McIntyre Company, which was in serious trouble by late 1914 and, when the company folded, the Imp was finished too.

Emblem

A restored Imp cyclecar on display at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Auto Museum is possibly the sole surviving Imp, see below:

This is an Imp cyclecar with a painted hood side script (1914) acdm

The Imp did not carry an emblem but did display the "Imp " name in the form of a script painted or using a decal attached to the side of the hood. The restored example shown above has been given a brightly colored painted "Imp" script, see photo shown above at the top of this post. This script style is based on the original "Imp" script style shown below.

The original Imp cyclecar had the "Imp" name displayed on the side of the hood in much smaller letters, probably using a colored decal, see the original photo shown below:

Imp cyclecar showing hood side nameplate script (1913)  acdm

Close-up showing Imp hood side script (1913)

ANDERSON (1)

Anderson Carriage Manufacturing Co. (1907-1910)
Anderson, Indiana

This is an Anderson maker's nameplate/serial plate (1907)  ms

The Anderson Carriage Manufacturing Company built high quality high-wheeler buggies and were proud of this. "The Anderson is a motor buggy" said Anderson advertisements "It isn't meant to be anything else".

The Anderson was initially a 12 hp air cooled two-cylinder air-motor buggy with friction drive and solid rubber tires. The engine size raised to 14 hp in 1910. The Anderson catalog for 1910 offers eleven models, including some models with lower wheels and pneumatic tires and runabouts with conventional hoods over the engine. Unfortunately, the Anderson did not survive beyond 1910.

Emblem

Most Anderson models were buggies with dash boards at the front. Anderson catalogs do not show any sign of emblems or scripts but one surviving 1907 Anderson has a brass "Anderson" script displayed on the front of the dash, see photo below, but this is may have been added later for decoration during restoration. If a genuine original "Anderson" script could be found it would be extremely rare.

Anderson Buggy with script on the dash (1907)  pinterest

The 1910 Anderson catalog showing models with hoods over the engine also did not display emblems or scripts, see catalog illustrations shown below:

Anderson Model M showing no emblem (1910)  hcfi

Anderson Model O showing no emblem (1910)  hcfi

The Anderson buggies did display the company name on a small maker's nameplate/serial plate attached to the rear of the vehicle, see example shown above at the top of this post and again below. This Anderson nameplate/serial plate is very rare.

This is an Anderson maker's nameplate/serial plate (1907)   ms

TRAYLOR TRUCK

Traylor Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Truck & Tractor Division (1920-1928)
Cornwells, Pennsylvania

This is a Traylor truck radiator emblem (c1920)   moroz

The Traylor Engineering & Manufacturing Company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania manufactured a number of industrial products and equipment. In 1920, the company also began to build motor trucks and farm tractors at a plant in Cornwells, Pennsylvania. 

A Traylor advertisement from January 1920 lists the range of Traylor motor trucks as 1-ton, 1-1/2-ton, 2-1/2-ton and 3-1/2-ton capacity powered by four-cylinder Buda engines with three-speed and four-speed Brown-Lipe transmissions and Sheldon worm-drive rear axles.

Traylor motor truck advertisements in September 1921 offer a range of five truck sizes, 1-1/2-ton, 2-ton. 3-ton, 4-ton and 5-ton capacity. By March 1922, the range is stated as from 3/4-ton to 5-ton capacity. A 1-1/4-ton capacity Traylor truck is reported in 1924. Later references suggest a reduced range of trucks comprising 1-1/2-ton, 2-ton and 3-ton capacity from 1925 to the end of production in 1928.

The 1920's was a difficult time for small truck manufacturing companies. It is likely that Traylor motor truck sales were mainly local with limited overall truck production.

Emblems

There are very few original photos of Traylor trucks that clearly show the radiator in detail, although the radiator shape is clear, and none of the trucks seem to have survived. 

However, Traylor truck advertisements include period photos of Traylor trucks and illustrations of the radiator tank top showing that Traylor trucks had cast metal radiators with the "TRAYLOR" name cast into the radiator tank top, as shown above at the top of this post.

Almost all Traylor truck advertisements include illustrations of the Traylor Logo, which depicts the letter "T" for Traylor passing through a keystone to represent Pennsylvania as the place where Traylor products were manufactured, see below:

This is the Traylor Logo

The following Traylor truck advertisement from 1920 includes a photo of a Traylor truck, as well as illustrations of the Traylor truck radiator tank top and emblem and the Traylor logo:

Traylor truck advertisement (1920) americanikons

The Traylor truck photo in this advertisement shows the heavy cast metal radiator tank top and radiator emblem, as well as a Traylor logo emblem, probably embossed and painted, on the radiator side panels, and a rectangular painted hood side Traylor nameplate, see detail shown below:

Traylor truck advertisement detail showing radiator emblems and hood side nameplate (1920)  atj

The rectangular hood side Traylor nameplate is more clearly seen in the illustration of a 2-1/2-ton truck on the following Traylor truck advertisement, which also shows the Traylor radiator tank top and a Traylor logo emblem mounted on the side of the driver's cab:

Traylor truck advertisement (1920) americanikons

Traylor truck detail showing hood side nameplate and Traylor logo emblem by the driver's cab 

The Traylor truck hood side nameplate is also seen on the following blueprint drawing of a Traylor Model D 2-1/2-ton truck:

Traylor Model D 2-1/2-ton Truck showing hood side nameplate (c1920)

Original Traylor hood side nameplates and Traylor logo body side emblems, if found, would be extremely rare.

The Traylor logo emblem also appears on a nameplate mounted on the front bumper of some heavy-duty Traylor trucks to form the word "FORTFYD" ("fortified"), see example below:

Traylor truck ad (1922)   pittsburgh press

Traylor truck detail showing the Traylor "T" logo on rad side & front bumper "FORTFYD" nameplate 

The following illustrations by Tad Burness show that the radiator side Traylor "T" logo and the "FORTFYD" front bumper nameplate were not used on the lighter-duty Trayor trucks:

Traylor 1-1/4-ton & 5-ton trucks (1924)   tadburness

The following painted, cast metal Traylor emblem is a quite different shape to the Traylor truck radiator emblems shown earlier and at the top of this post. 

This is a Traylor emblem (date uncertain)   lktec
Size: 254mm wide 100mm high

The shape of this emblem suggests a flat top radiator, if this was a radiator emblem, but I can find no evidence that any Traylor trucks had flat top radiators.

The Traylor Truck & Tractor Division also built Farm Tractors, as shown on the following Traylor advertisement:

Traylor ad showing Farm Tractor (1920) new york times  

However, the Traylor Farm Tractors had a circular radiator emblem, see photo below of a surviving Traylor Farm Tractor:

Traylor Farm Tractor Model 6-12 (1920)    moroz

The parent Traylor Engineering & Manufacturing Company of Allentown, Pennsylvania, which continued in business after closing down their Truck and Tractor Division in 1928, produced a variety of specialist equipment for the mining, milling, smelting and other process industries. Traylor catalogs for these products in the 1940s show a Traylor "trademark" or logo, which exactly resembles the unusual Traylor emblem design shown earlier, see example below:

Traylor Process Industry Catalog (1945)
vintageadsandbooks

It appears that the unusual cast metal Traylor emblem shown earlier above is from some piece of process industry equipment made by the Traylor company in the 1940s.

DELIVR-ALL

Marmon-Herrington Inc. (1945-1952)
Indianapolis, Indiana

This is a Delivr-All delivery van emblem (1945-1952)    mjs
Size: 69mm wide 32mm high    MM: None

The Delivr-All was a multi-stop delivery van produced by Marmon-Herrington from late 1945 to 1952 (see Marmon-Herrington). The Delivr-All was a front-wheel-drive, short-wheelbase, maneuverable van that could be driven from a standing or sitting position.

Emblems

The Delivr-All van carried an oval shaped emblem mounted on the top of the radiator grille, see example below:

Delivr-All delivery van showing rad emblem (1946)  ewillys

Close up showing radiator emblem

The detailed design of the Delivr-All emblem is shown on the following Delivr-All brochure cover:

Delivr-All brochure cover (c1948)  autopaper

This is the Delivr-All delivery van emblem, originally painted black, shown above at the top of this post. This Delivr-All emblem is scarce.

The Delivr-All emblem was mounted flat on the front of the van where there was no radiator and the emblem was folded where necessary to fit either the shape of the radiator or the front of the van, see example shown below: 

Delivr-All emblem showing fold in the emblem (c1948)  ms

COMBINATION LADDER

Combination Ladder Co. (1800's -1930's)
Providence, Rhode Island

This is a Combination Ladder Co. nameplate (date unknown)   mjs
Size: 132mm wide 65mm high    MM: None

The Combination Ladder Company of Providence Rhode Island was a builder of fire department ladders, whose business dated back to the days of horse-drawn fire equipment. By the early 1900's, the Combination Ladder Company was making complete horse-drawn fire apparatus, including hose wagons, combination hose and chemical wagons, and hook and ladder trucks.

As motor powered fire apparatus began to replace horse-drawn vehicles, Combination Ladder began to make hose and chemical combinations for mounting on commercial motor chassis, including Mack and White. Combination Ladder also built large aerial ladder trucks and complete motor fire apparatus, including pumpers, combinations and hook and ladder trucks, through the 1920's. However, the Great Depression of the early 1930's saw the end of Combination Ladder Company.

Emblem

The cast metal Combination Ladder Company nameplate shown above is very rare.

DEERING MAGNETIC

Magnetic Motors Corp. (1918-1919)

Chicago, Illinois

St Louis, Missouri

This is a Deering Magnetic radiator emblem (1918-1919)    sam
Size: 57mm diameter    MM: Unknown

The Deering Magnetic was a luxury styled 38 hp six-cylinder car with an Entz transmission system, which was also being used on the Owen Magnetic. The Deering was introduced at the Automobile Salon in Chicago in January 1918 and offered as a seven-passenger touring or a five-passenger town car. A wider range of body styles was offered for the 1919 model year but it is unlikely that many were actually sold.

The Deering had been well designed by Karl H. Martin and was well built by the Dorris Motor Car Company in St Louis and used a Dorris engine. It should all have gone well for the Deering Magnetic but there were serious problems with material supplies, because of the First World War, and probably with financing, and production of the Deering Magnetic was brought to an end in late 1918. 

Emblem

The black and white enamel Deering Magnetic radiator emblem shown above is extremely rare.

SAMPSON

Alden Sampson Manufacturing Co.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1905-1910)
Detroit, Michigan (1910-1912)

This is a Sampson emblem (dates uncertain)  mjs
Size: 57mm diameter   MM: None

The Alden Sampson Manufacturing Company had briefly produced a passenger car called the Alden Sampson in 1904 but in 1905 decided to confine itself to the manufacture of Sampson trucks. 

The main Sampson product initially was a 40 hp four-cylinder 5-ton capacity chain driven truck but by 1909 the Sampson range had widened to include smaller trucks of 1-ton, 2-ton, 3-ton and 4-ton capacity, all with chain drive. In 1910 an 18 hp two-cylinder half-ton truck was offered using shaft drive. From 1908 to 1910 Sampson also built a small number of road trains, which were tractors with 40 hp engines and generators which provided electric power to motors in each of two six-wheeled trailers.

In 1910 Alden Sampson came under the control of United States Motors and Sampson production moved to Detroit where a new low-priced 30 hp four-cylinder truck called the Hercules was also built. In 1911 it was decided to build a passenger car again. The new 35 hp four-cylinder shaft drive car was called the Sampson. But Sampson was out of business in 1912 with the collapse of United States Motors.

Emblems

Early Alden Sampson trucks displayed an "AS" script attached to the radiator core, see example shown on the original truck photo in the following Alden Sampson advertisement from about 1906:

Alden Sampson truck ad showing a radiator script (c1906)  ms

The following Alden Sampson hubcap shows a similar "AS" logo:

This is an Alden Sampson hubcap (c1908)   dkc

The 1910 Sampson truck in the following original photo carries a "SAMPSON" capital letter script style radiator emblem:

This is a Sampson truck displaying a "SALMSON" script style radiator emblem (1910)   dpl

The following original photo shows a 1-1/2-ton Sampson truck with a smaller capital letter script style "SAMPSON" radiator emblem:

Sampson 1-1/2-ton fire department truck showing a radiator emblem (1911)  tpw

However, not all Sampson trucks at this time carried a radiator emblem. The following photo taken at the 1911 Chicago Auto Show shows Sampson trucks, which have no radiator emblem but display the "SAMPSON" name in capital letters on brass scripts attached to the radiator core:

This shows Sampson trucks at the Chicago Auto Show displaying radiator scripts (1911)   dpl

The following are examples of brass Sampson radiator scripts. Original Sampson radiator scripts are rare.

This is a Sampson radiator script (c1911-1912)     mjs
Size: 365mm wide

This is a Sampson radiator script (c1912)     ms
Size: Unknown

The following original photo from 1911 shows two similar Sampson trucks:

Sampson trucks (1911)    dpl

The truck on the left has no radiator emblem but has a radiator script, which is like the capital letter script seen on the 1911 Chicago Auto Show trucks shown earlier above. 

However, the truck on the right has no radiator script but does have a radiator emblem, which shows the "Sampson" name with a large letter "S" followed by lower case letters rather than the capital letter script style radiator emblems shown earlier above, see close-up photo shown below:

Sampson truck with different script style radiator emblem (1911)  dpl

The 5-ton Sampson dump truck shown in the following original photo from 1912 displays a similar "Sampson" nameplate script attached to the chassis frame below the driver's seat and a round radiator emblem:

Sampson 5-ton dump truck with rad emblem and nameplate (1912) tpw

Close-up showing a round radiator emblem and chassis nameplate 

The round red, blue, white and gold painted Sampson emblem shown above at the top of this post is believed to be a Sampson radiator emblem. This Sampson radiator emblem is very rare.

However, the round radiator emblem seen on the Sampson dump truck in the photo shown above appears to be larger than the Sampson emblem shown at the top of this post. I cannot find any photos or illustrations of Sampson vehicles, which show the round Sampson emblem at the top of this post. It is possible that this emblem was used for the Sampson automobile built in 1911 but I cannot confirm this.

If you have details of the use of the round Sampson emblem shown at the top of this post, please let me know, in order to update this post.