BODY MANUFACTURER BADGES

BODY MANUFACTURER BADGES are not makes but are the emblem of the automobile body's manufacturer.

*Adelaide Motor Metal Works was an Adelaide (Australia) automobile body maker.

Manufactured by
Adelaide Motor Metal Works
Register Place Adelaide
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

*Allemano (1928-1965) was an automobile body maker in Turin (Torino), Italy. They built bodies for Ferrari, Fiat, Maserati and others.

A Allemano Torino
Size: 28mm x 46mm

*Australian Motor Industries (AMI) (1926-1987) were the agency responsible for the Standard Eight, Standard Vanguard, and Triumph Mayflower and others in Australia.

AMI
Size: 64mm x 45mm

*Briggs (1909-1953) was an automobile body maker in Detroit, USA. and built for Ford and Chrysler.

Briggs Body (reproduction)
Size: 35mm x 35mm

*Canta (1946-1953), was an automobile body maker in Turin (Torino), Italy and built mainly for Fiat.

Canta Torino
Size: 55mm x 47mm

*Conrero (1951-1969) was named after the Italian Virgilio Conrero (1918-1990), an engineer and racing team manager, a noted tuner of Alfa Romeo racing cars (also tuned some Lancia & Opel cars) and built a few Conrero Alfa Romeo.

Conrero (1960)
Size: 73mm x 40mm

*Creswell was a Sydney (Australia) automobile body maker.

Body by Cresswell Sydney
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

*Duple (1919-1989) was an automobile body maker in England (UK). The name Duple was indicated it was for a dual style (i.e. car/van) vehicles. Duple also built buses and built for Bedford and Vauxhall.

Duple Group Coachwork
Size: 158mm x 119mm

*Ellena (1958-1966) were Ezio Ellena and Boano, who were Italian automobile body makers based on Ferrari 250 GT (1958-1966) from the town of Turin (Torino), Italy.

Ellena Torino
Size: 50mm x 50mm

*Falcon (1963-1970) was made by Peter Pellandine in United Kingdom who then migrated to Australia and started Pellandini (see Pellandini post).

Falcon
Size: 36mm x 53mm

*Farina (1928+) was founded by designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina in Turin (Torino), Italy and is now called Pininfarina (1930+) and built for Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Peugoet, Fiat, Maserati, GM etc..

Farina F
C.so Tortona 12 Torino
(The "F" is a separate piece)
Size: 40mm x 54mm

Ferrari - F (i.e. Pininfarina)
Size: 35mm x 18mm

Nash - F (i.e. Pininfarina)
Size: 75mm x 34mm

* Fiat (1899+) is a make, but also made automobile body's.

Fiat Officine Lingotto
Size: 56mm x 12mm

Fiat 1100 Special
Fiat Carrozzerie Speciali
Officine Ligotto
Size: 73mm x 45mm

*Ford (Australia) is a make, but also made automobile body's for other cars too.

Two Ford body badges - no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann collection.

Ford Falcon (Ute)
Australian body badge (painted)
Size: 68mm x 68mm x 14m

Ford - All-steel body by Ford
(Australian ~late 1930's)
Size: 45mm x 45mm

Ford Aust body badge
Size: 49mm x 13mm

Ford
Size: 75mm x 25mm

*Ford (UK)

Ford British Empire Product (body badge)
Size: 40mm x 20mm

*Francis Lombardi (1947-1973) was founded in Vercelli, Italy and built Fiats.

Francis Lombardi
Vercelli
Size: 26mm x 33mm

*Garavini (1908-1958) was a builder from Turin (Torino), Italy and built for Itala, Alfa Romeo, Fiat etc..

Garavini
Torino
Size: 42mm x 66mm

*Giannini (1885-1971) was founded in Rome, Italy as a garage and later as a builder of engines, including racing cars engines for the Fiat 500 from the 1930's and made a few cars around 1963.

Giannini (1963+)
Size: 61mm x 73mm

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Giannini Torino (1963+) (rear)
Size: 57mm x 57mm

Giannini
Size: 55mm x 55mm

*General Motors Holden (GMH) (Australia) or Holden (Australia) built bodies for Chevrolet, Isuzu, Nissan, Opel, Suzuki, Toyota, Vauxhall.

Holden (1928)
Size: 46mm x 32mm

The Holden lion emblem, when facing right, was produced in the 1930-1931 era.

Holden (1930-1931) (photo only)

Holden (post 1939 & ~1939)
Size: 40mm x 26mm

The enamelled emblem is likely to be the earlier of the two, as post World War 2 the emblem wasn't enamelled.

Australian Coachwork Holden
(on window pillar)
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

Product of General Motors-Holden's
(early 1950's)
Size: 38mm x 25mm

*Ghia or Carrozzeria Ghia (1916-1970) was an Italian builder, there was also a Ford Ghia car. Also see Volkswagen Karmann Ghia below.

Ghia (plastic)
Size: 31mm x 43mm

Ghia (plastic)
Size: 56mm x 70mm (75mm x 40mm)

*Holden (Australia) see General Motors Holden (GMH) (Australia) above.

*Hope was an Adelaide (Australia) automobile body maker.

Body Built by Hope
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

*Jensen (UK) built specialist car bodies for Morris, Singer, Ford, Austin, Chrysler and Jensen etc..

Jensen (body badge)
Size: 20-31-36mm x 50mm

*Jewitt (1953-1964) were made by Jim Jewitt of Melbourne, Australia and made fibreglass bodies for Holden racing vehicles.

A Jewitt body
Size: 43mm x 75mm

*Karmann see Volkswagen Karmann Ghia below.

*Kent Town Motor & Body Works Ltd. (1940's), Adelaide, Australia.

Bodywork by
Kent Town Motor & Body Works
Kent Town
Size: 75mm x 32mm

*Lawton (1865-1950's) were Coach and Motor Body Builder makers, making electric and petrol Industrial trucks in Adelaide, Australia.

Lawton (bus)
Size: 111mm x 175mm

*Leyland (Australia) (1954-1983); Leyland (UK) (1907-1968), British Leyland Motor Corporation (1968-1975), British Leyland (1975-1986).

Leyland Australia (blue)
Size 30mm x 39mm

Leyland Australia (black)
Size 30mm x 39mm

British Leyland (black)
Size 32mm x 39mm

*Monviso (1946-1954) was a maker in Turin (Torino), Italy

Stabilimento Monviso Torino
Size: 49mm x 40mm

*Nardi (1947-1954) was a maker in Turin (Torino), Italy

Nardi & C. ND Torino
Size: 32mm x 45mm

*Pininfarina see Farina above.

*Rowe was an Adelaide (Australia) automobile body maker.

Body by Rowe
146 O'Connell Street North Adelaide
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

*Ruskin (1930-1947) built motor bodies in Australia.

Ruskin (sill-plate)
Size: 287mm x 88mm

*Scioneri (founded in 1943 built automobiles 1951-2005) was made in Savigliano, Italy.

Scioneri Savigliano (1951-1990's)
Size: 32mm x 55mm

*Spencer (1920's) was a body builder in Adelaide, Australia.

Spencer Company Quality Bodies Adelaide (1920's)
Size: 61mm x 26mm

*Tickford (Tickford Vehicle Engineering) (1999-2002, 2016+) was a body builder for Ford (Australia) vehicles and manufactured in Victoria, Australia.

Tickford
Size: 80mm x 21mm

*Tilbrook (1947-1950's) was made in Adelaide, Australia.

Tilbrook (sidecar body badge)
Size: 55mm x 15mm

*TJ Richards & Sons (1885-1951) was a coachbuilder in Adelaide, Australia. TJ Richards developed the "King of the Road", a two-wheeled scully (a lightweight horse-drawn cart), which he also used as his logo/slogan for automobile bodies and they were involved with Armstrong Siddeley, Bianchi, Citroen, Fiat, Hudson, Maxwell, Oakland, Overland, etc. etc.