GREGORY

Gregory-Craun Motor Co. (1920-1922)

Front Drive Motor Co. (1920)

Gregory (1947;1954)

Kansas City, Missouri

This is a rendition of a possible Gregory radiator emblem (c1922)   ms

Ben F Gregory built an experimental front-wheel drive car in 1920 and a front-wheel drive Gregory touring car was shown at the Kansas City Automobile Show in 1921. A few Gregory cars were built in 1922 but the total production is believed to have been only about 10 cars, which were built by the O. E. Szekely Company of Moline, Illinois.

Gregory returned with new front-wheel drive car designs in 1947 and again in 1954 but he did not form a company and, apart from one-off prototypes, production did not follow.

Emblem

The following is the only original period photo of a Gregory two-passenger front drive roadster that I have seen. The brass "KCFD" script on the radiator is likely to be a Kansas City Fire Department script, so perhaps this Gregory was to be a fire chief's car, who knows?

Gregory Front Drive Roadster showing radiator emblem (1922)   ms

Close up showing radiator and radiator emblem

I have not seen an original Gregory radiator emblem, so the original colors and dimensions are unknown. An original Gregory radiator emblem would be extremely rare and possibly ultra rare.

Emblem collectors should beware as there are reproduction Gregory radiator emblems, see example shown below:

This is a reproduction Gregory radiator emblem    mjs
Size: 98mm wide 52mm high

It can be seen by comparison with the original photo of the Gregory roadster shown earlier above that the colors in this reproduction emblem do not match the dark/light colors of the original Gregory radiator emblem. Reversing the colors in the reproduction emblem produces the following rendition, which is closer to the original Gregory radiator emblem, although the actual colors cannot be confirmed:

This is a rendition of a possible Gregory radiator emblem (c1922)   ms

If you have better details of an original Gregory radiator emblem, please let me know, in order to update this post.

The following photos show the front drive Gregory cars built in 1947 and 1954 but they do not appear to display an emblem:

Gregory front drive sedan (c1947)  lane motor museum

Gregory front drive roadster (1954)   lane motor museum