CLARK-NORWALK

Clark-Norwalk (1910-1911)
Cleveland, Ohio

This is a Clark-Norwalk radiator emblem (1910-1911)  sam
Size: 64mm high 64mm wide   MM: Unknown

The Clark related to this motor car was the name of a motor car sales agency in Cleveland, Ohio that sold the four-cylinder Norwalk motor car built in Norwalk, Ohio in 1910 to 1911 (see Norwalk).

However, the Clark-Norwalk was an entirely badge-engineered motor car. It was in fact the Norwalk motor car but with a Clark emblem. This business arrangement was short-lived, as the Norwalk business in Norwalk, Ohio was bankrupt by early 1911.

The Norwalk also offered similar badge-engineered services to other motor car manufacturing companies and continued to to do so after the Norwalk moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1912.  

Emblems

The Standard Catalog of American Cars says the Clark-Norwalk carried a brass Clark script on the radiator core. I have not seen any original period photos or illustrations showing a Clark-Norwalk with a radiator script but this may have been correct at the start of this business arrangement in early 1910. 

The Clark-Norwalk is known to have been shown at the Cleveland Armory Automobile Show in late 1910. The following original period photo shows some Clark-Norwalk completed cars and chassis displayed at an automobile trade show referenced to be in 1911 but there is no sign of a Clark radiator script:

A group of Clark-Norwalk cars at a trade show (1911)    dpl

However, a closer look at the completed cars in the photo show a cross-shaped emblem mounted on the radiator core:

Close up showing Clark-Norwalk cars with emblems mounted on the radiator core

These cross-shaped Clark-Norwalk radiator core emblems are shining brightly due to reflection of the trade show lights on the light colored enamel finish of the emblem. 

This is the yellow enamel Clark-Norwalk radiator emblem shown above at the top of this post and again below. This Clark-Norwalk radiator emblem is extremely rare and possibly ultra rare.

This is a Clark-Norwalk radiator emblem (1910-1911)  sam
Size: 64mm high 64mm wide     MM: Unknown