VICTOR TRUCK (1)

Victor Motor Truck Co. (1910-1914)
Buffalo, New York

Victor Motor Truck logo/radiator emblem (1910-1914)  ms
Size: Unknown

The Victor Motor Truck Company initially offered a 3/4-ton capacity standard express truck powered by a 25 hp four-cylinder engine with Shebler carburetor and used a three-speed selective sliding gear transmission. 

By 1911, Victor Motor Truck Company offered a range of five different sizes of delivery vans, as well as an ambulance, hearse, police patrol wagon, fire apparatus and a sight-seeing bus. In 1912, there was a line of Victor trucks in seven sizes from 1-ton to 10-ton capacity. But the Victor factory was not set up for the efficient assembly of such an ambitious range of commercial vehicles and by 1913, only 3-ton and 5-ton capacity trucks were offered. It was all over in 1914.

Production numbers are not known but are likely to have been modest. 

Emblems

The only original period photos of Victor trucks built in Buffalo, New York that I can find clearly showing the radiator are from the following Victor truck advertisement dated February 1912, which illustrates eight different trucks . 

Victor Motor Truck Co advertisement (Feb 1912)    ebay

The various truck illustrations in the Victor Truck advertisement shown above, are original period photos of trucks probably built in 1911. These photos are small but clearly show the Victor Truck radiator emblem, which appears to be identical to the Victor Truck logo shown in the advertisement, see the following enlargements of some of the Victor Truck photos from the advertisement:

The Victor Truck radiator emblem appears to be the same as the company logo, see illustration shown above at the top of this post and again below: 

Victor Truck logo/radiator emblem (1910-1914)   ms
Size: Unknown

The Victor Truck radiator emblems are mounted on the radiator core and are most likely to be brass script emblems. If you have a photo of an original Victor Truck radiator script emblem, please let me know, in order to update this post. Original Victor Truck radiator script emblems, if they could be found, would be extremely rare.