VICTOR TRUCK (2)

Victor Truck Co. (c1920)
St. Joseph, Michigan

This is a Victor Truck radiator showing emblem (c1920)  moroz

It was reported in early February 1919 that the Simpson Motor Truck Company of St. Joseph, Michigan had decided to reorganize as the Victor Truck Company and to increase the capital stock from $50,000 to $150,000. The company also planned to build a new factory.

In March 1919, the Victor Truck Company was advertising a Victor truck builder kit to convert passenger vehicles into trucks. 

In September 1919, the Victor Truck Company was advertising a new Victor Model A 1-1/2-ton or 2-ton truck and a Model B 2-ton or 2-1/2-ton truck all using Continental motors with Fuller transmissions and the Power Wagon Reference Book for 1920 advertised 1-1/2-ton and 2-1/2-ton Victor trucks. 

Very little more is known about the Victor worm drive motor truck built in St. Joseph, Michigan and most truck reference books do not mention this truck at all.

If you have any further details about Victor trucks built by the Victor Truck Company in St. Josephs, Michigan, please let me know, in order to update this post.

Emblems

The Victor truck advertisement appearing in the Power Wagon Reference Book for 1920, shows an original period photo of a Victor truck carrying a radiator emblem and a body side nameplate mounted at the side of the driver's seat, see below:

Victor Truck advertisement (1920)   power wagon reference book

The Victor Truck radiator emblem is more clearly seen in the photo of a Victor Truck radiator shown above at the top of this post and again below:

This is a Victor Truck radiator showing emblem (c1920)  moroz

This is most likely to be a painted cast metal Victor radiator emblem. If you have a better photo of a radiator emblem for this Victor Truck, please let me know, in order to update this post. An original radiator emblem from this Victor truck would be extremely rare. 

The Victor truck body side nameplate is more clearly seen in the following blueprint showing a 2-1/2-ton capacity Victor Truck:

Blueprint showing 2-1/2-ton Victor Truck with body side nameplate (c1920)  my companies

This Victor Truck body side nameplate is possibly the same as the radiator emblem, but I cannot confirm this. An original Victor Truck body side nameplate would be extremely rare.