Mascot from a 1928 Avion Voisin automobile. This must be the most striking hood ornament I've ever seen. There are reproductions being made. And look at the perfect logo.
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Gabriel Voison was an early aircraft pioneer, he built the first European-made airplane to complete a manned 1 km diameter test flight. During WW1 he became a producer of aircraft, a pilot flying in one of his Voison III. After the war he started building luxury automobiles, using light alloys and unique details. Knight sleeve valve engines were used.
The company struggled during the depression and closed in 1939.
Hot damn, what a beautiful car.
ReplyDeleteIs that a scarab in the logo? Can't make it out quite. King Tut-omania was pervasive in the '20s, though, thus my assumption that it is.
The pedestrian hex-head affixing the ornament to the rad cap kind of lowers the tone. Can it be correct?
Hard to believe anyone who spent so much time on the logo would have created that hood ornament. The radiator cap has had some time spent on it whereas the hood ornament looks like something that was added on...
ReplyDeleteI'll agree that hex head bolt definitely looks like an afterthought.
ReplyDeleteThe hex bolt here takes the place of the missing coolant thermometer.
ReplyDeleteThe ornament was nicknamed "La cocotte" (the origami), being made of stacked
and riveted aluminium sheets. I find it stunning in regard of the simplicity
of construction.
It is a acorn nut
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