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A hood ornament (or bonnet ornament or bonnet mascot in Commonwealth English), also called a motor mascot or car mascot, is a specially crafted model that symbolizes a car company, like a badge, located on the front center portion of the hood.
The stork hood ornament. The hood ornament atop the radiator after World War I was in the form of a stork, the symbol of the French province of Alsace, taken from the squadron emblem painted on the side of a Hispano-Suiza powered fighter aircraft that had been flown by the World War I French ace Georges Guynemer.
Hood ornament of a 1919 roadster. In 1909, U.S. President William Howard Taft ordered two Pierce-Arrows (and two White Model M Tourers) to be used for state occasions, the first official cars of the White House. 1919 Pierce-Arrow X-3 truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.
The Cadillac hood ornament made its appearance as an extra cost option of US$12 ($210 in 2023 dollars [4])for the "Herald" ,"Heron" or "Goddess", while a heater for occupants was US$32 ($561 in 2023 dollars [4]) and a rear folding trunk rack was US$25 ($439 in 2023 dollars [4]). [1]
The hood ornament used by Brockway was a husky dog with pulling harness, thus giving Cortland the nickname of "Huskie Town USA". A documentary about the trucks and the Brockway company is available from Wiffle Ball Productions in Cortland, New York.
Under the hood, a 4 US gal (15 L) gravity-fed fuel-tank mounted above the motor made it possible for the car to operate without a fuel pump. [10] The engine was a small, air-cooled Waukesha two-cylinder boxer , much like that of the Citroen 2CV , [ 9 ] and had a fan as an integral part of the flywheel .
The Adonis hood ornament was briefly used in the late 1920s. [ 2 ] In the 1920s, Packard exported more cars than any other in its price class, and in 1930, sold almost twice as many abroad as any other marque priced over US$2,000 (equivalent to $36,478 in 2023) [ 19 ] . [ 20 ]
The Buick Master Six (also Series 40 and Series 50 depending on wheelbase) was an automobile built by Buick from 1925 to 1928. Previously, the company manufactured the Buick Six that used the overhead valve six-cylinder 242 cu in (4.0 L) engine in their high-end cars, and the four-cylinder Buick Four for its smaller, less-expensive model.