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)

Phone C5924
Adelaide Motor Metal Works Ltd. Builders
Register Place, Adelaide S.A.
(90mm x 40mm)

*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 an Italian 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.