LOGAN

Motor Storage & Manufacturing Co. (1904)
Logan Construction Co. (1904-1908)
Chillicothe, Ohio

This is a Logan radiator script (c1907-1908)   khc
Size: 178mm wide 76mm high   MM: Greenduck

The Logan motor car and motor truck were produced by Benjamin A. Gramm from early 1904. The first Logan car was a 10 hp two-cylinder five-passenger touring, which grew to 20 hp in 1905. Four-cylinder models were introduced in 1906. 

The Logan cars were well built and aptly used the slogan " That Car of Quality". They were offered in water-cooled and air-cooled versions until 1907, after when all Logan cars were air-cooled.  

Logan commercial vehicles were also built from 1904 and by 1907 the company was beginning to concentrate on this side of the business. The Logan company was bankrupt by mid-1908. Benjamin Gramm then moved to Bowling Green, Ohio and established the Gramm-Logan Motor Car Company for the production of motor trucks.

Emblems

The first Logan vehicles from 1904 did not carry an emblem but would have displayed the company name on a small maker's nameplate attached to the body or at the rear of the vehicle.

By 1905, some, but not all, Logan models displayed the "Logan" name on a script attached to the body panel at the side of the driver's seat,most likely using a decal, see example shown below:

Logan Model D with body side script (1905)   hac

The photo below of a surviving 1906 Logan Model F appears to show a radiator emblem but this is due to a shadow or discoloration of the radiator top. The side view of the same car confirms that there is no radiator emblem:

Logan Model F (1906)  rosscountyhistoricalsociety

Logan Model F side view 

The following Logan advertisement from 1906 includes an original photo of a similar Logan car again confirming that there was no radiator emblem and no body side script:

Logan advertisement (1906)  rosscountyhistoricalsociety

However, the "Logan-That Car of Quality" slogan is displayed on the brass sill plates and the "Logan" name is cast into the central frame bar under the driver's entrance, see photos shown below:

Logan Model F showing sill plate and central frame bar below (1906)  rosscountyhistoricalsociety

Close up showing "Logan" name cast on frame bar (1906)

There are few original period photos of Logan vehicles and most either show no sign of an emblem or the photo is of very poor quality. 

The following original period photo from 1908 shows a Logan commercial vehicle with no radiator emblem but the "Logan" name is displayed on the body panel at the side of the driver's cab, as shown earlier,  probably using a decal:

Logan truck without rad emblem (1908)    flickr

However, the following poor quality original period photo of a Logan police van from 1907 or 1908 shows a brass "Logan" script mounted on the radiator core, see below:

Logan police van showing radiator script (c1907)     rosscountyhistoricalsociety

The detailed design of this Logan radiator script is not clear from the photo but is similar to the brass Logan script shown above at the top of this post and again below. This Logan radiator script is certainly original, as, unusually, it carries a Greenduck maker's mark. This Logan radiator script is very rare:

This is a Logan radiator script (c1907-1908)   khc
Size: 178mm wide 76mm high   MM: Greenduck

The following is a different and much larger Logan radiator script, which is part of an emblem collection put together in the 1930's and is likely to be original. This Logan radiator script is also very rare.

This is a Logan radiator script (c1907-1908)   sam
Size: 301mm wide