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The best thing I could find is a picture of an early DB radiator badge (with most of the enamel worn off) on e-bay at this location: <A HREF="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2104456727" TARGET=_blank>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2104456727</A> <P>The picture is in gif format. If you want a drawing in any format, you'll find that hard to come by on the internet.<P>By the way, a lot of people think that the early DB logo is a star of david. There is no evidence that this is the origin. There has been a lot of research by DB historians and the general conclusion is that the DB logo is a pair of interlocking hexagrams with a clouded origin. It could represent the close relationship these brothers had, or two deltas (you know Horace and John Dodge), or the traditional strength that hexagrams represent.

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The emblem contains the symbol of intertwined equilateral triangles in the foreground. The background is actually the continents of our planet, or a "globe" with the Americas on the left side and Asia to the far right. The blue coloring would be that of the oceans. And finally the Brass wings on the outside.

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Ray -<BR>The radiator shell emblem from 1915 until around 1929 or 1930 (I'm not sure exactly when it was altered - maybe even 1928) was just the interlocking triangles forming a hexagram or "star" with, of course, the globe in the background and circled by the Dodge Brothers - Detroit USA.<P>The winged hood ornament was introduced as part of the "Chryslerfication" of Dodge. I belive that the winged ornament with a small "star" in the middle lasted through at least the 1938 models.<p>[ 05-23-2002: Message edited by: leadfoot ]

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The Victory Six emblem also had wings. This car came out November 1927, before "chryslerization" so-called, and started it all. In the shield between the wings were lightening, a tree, and some other, all having meaning I suppose.<BR> Getting back to the original "interlocking triangles" emblem, it's also proposed that it can be something so simple as an attempt to portray a marshall's badge, as this was a typical design of lawman's badge at the turn of the last century. Hence no real, deep, heavy meaning at all but just a stunning symbol!

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