Board logo

Enamel badge
designer - 13/12/12 at 04:08 PM

A while ago on here, someone found a company doing small runs of enamel car badges. Anyone remember it?


jps - 13/12/12 at 04:24 PM

No, but that post has brought a small lump into my throat.

When I was 10 years old (early 90s) our family business - a car dealership/filling station/etc, etc went into receivership. It was the end of 4 generations of my family selling motor vehicles and the end of a business that had celebrated 125 years of trading. It's roots had actually pre-dated motorised transport, starting off as a bicycle retailer.

One of the few relics that I have is a handful of enamel badges which were, once upon a time, fastened onto new cars by the dealer - much like the text on modern number plates or the stickers that go in rear windows of cars. They have the name of the business and the telephone number (which from memory is TWO digits long!) as well as a St Christopher embossed in the middle

When my car is finished (a long way off) one of these badges will take pride of place on the dashboard of my creation!

[Edited on 13/12/12 by jps]


owelly - 13/12/12 at 04:36 PM

Not enamel but I've used domedbadges.co.uk.


Ben_Copeland - 13/12/12 at 05:32 PM

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=98851

But the guy has been active for a while !

Although he made them himself

[Edited on 13/12/12 by Ben_Copeland]


907 - 13/12/12 at 06:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ben_Copeland
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=98851

But the guy has been active for a while !

Although he made them himself

[Edited on 13/12/12 by Ben_Copeland]





I think he still has some left.
I saw them on a shelf in his workshop, camouflaged by a protective layer of dust.

Cheers,
Paul G
(His Dad)


Dick Axtell - 13/12/12 at 08:40 PM

You could check out these guys -

http://www.fattorini.co.uk/.

They've had loadsa experience in enamel badge and medal making.


chillis - 14/12/12 at 10:25 AM

There's a guy on flea bite trading as leyland labels who does that sort of thing and I think he can do stuff to your design