Dave, I would be eternality grateful to you if you could get a picture of the complete logo for me. Believe me when I say, I have looked everywhere.
Yes Brad, could you post a link to that? I'm not sure what your looking at, I have a reprint of the "Chevrolet Accessories Installation Manual for 1950" and there is no such drawing in mine.
Randy, I’m sure your aware that the 235 was a “Load master” and the 216 was a “Thrift master” and what you are referring to is the font rather than the actual wording. Yes it is a similar looking font. However, in 1950 this would have been produced by a graphic artist employed by GM and would have been “art work”, not a scripted font from a font library as we know it today. I have been through this many times with paper labels that I have reproduced for antique radios.
The scripted computer font is what the vendors supplier is using for the copy, in an attempt to reproduce the original one. I refuse to call them a reproduction, rather a copy and a pi$$ poor on at that!
This is like trying to guess what the whole dinosaur looked like when all you have is the head and a leg.
I have reproduced as much as I can by hand from the little bit that remained on my cover. It looks quite good but I still don’t think it is correct. I don’t believe there were any breaks between the letters, which are necessary for a stencil. With the line width as thin as it is it is difficult to keep a stencil of this size down flat. So after working with this for several days now, I am convinced that the logo was applied by silk screen to the covers and not as a stencil. I could tell quite easily if I could get a picture of a complete original VC logo.
Just for the record, the later “Thrift master” logos were originally applied as an adhesive backed decal. I saw one on Wednesday that had 16,000 miles on it and was purchased out of a museum. Everything was original on it.
Thanks for putting up with all of this just for one small detail, but like I’ve said before, “I’m a nit-picker”
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
