ARMLEDER

Otto Armleder Co.                               )
Otto Armleder Motor Truck Co.         ) (1910-1928)
Armleder Truck Co.                            )
LeBlond-Schacht Truck Co. (1928-1936)
Cincinnati, Ohio

This is an Armleder radiator emblem (c1930-1936)    mjs
Size: 140mm wide 45mm high    MM: Fox

The Otto Armleder Company was a long established wagon building company and began building four-cylinder conventional assembled trucks in 1910. The first Armleder trucks ranged from 3/4-ton to 1-1/2 ton capacity, which was increased to 2-ton and 3-1/2 ton capacity by 1917 when chain drive was replaced by worm drive. A six-cylinder model line was also available in 1927

In October 1928, Armleder became a division of the LeBlond-Schacht Truck Company (see Schacht) and the two makes were gradually merged. The Armleder name was discontinued in 1936.

Emblems

The first light duty Armleder trucks had a brass radiator and displayed the "Armleder" name on a wide oval shaped brass script mounted on the radiator core, see example shown below in a 1914 hotel bus photo. Original brass Armleder radiator scripts are very rare.

Armleder hotel bus showing radiator script (1914)   wiki

By 1917, heavy duty Armleder trucks had a cast radiator tank top and carried a wide oval shaped radiator emblem, see truck advertisement illustration shown below. However, I cannot confirm if this emblem is cast into the radiator tank top or is a separate emblem.

Armleder truck ad (1917)   ebay

Armleder truck showing oval radiator emblem (1917)

The oval shaped Armleder radiator emblem is seen in other Armleder advertisements in 1918, 1920 and 1931 and on surviving Armleder trucks. However, the following photo of a surviving 1919 Armleder truck shows a very different radiator emblem. The radiator appears to show the "Armleder" name either cast or impressed into the aluminum radiator tank top.

Armleder aluminum radiator with cast or impressed emblem (1919)
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The following is another example of an Armleder radiator emblem that does not follow the traditional oval shape of other Armleder radiator emblems. This is a separate cast Aluminum radiator emblem and is rare. 

This is an Armleder radiator emblem (date unknown)   mjs
Size: 155mm wide 48mm high    MM: None

Other Armleder radiator emblems are oval shaped as shown in earlier examples above. The following is a cast metal Armleder radiator emblem, which may have been painted originally. This Armleder radiator emblem is believed to date from around 1918-1919 but I cannot confirm this. This Armleder radiator emblem is very rare.

This is an Armleder radiator emblem (c1918-1919)    ms
Size: Unknown

The Armleder radiator emblem was a separate, painted cast metal oval shaped emblem from about 1920, see example shown below from a 1-1/2-ton Armleder dump truck. This Armleder radiator emblem is rare.

Armleder truck radiator emblem (c1920-1929)  yesterdaysmemories
Size: Unknown

The following 1922 Armleder Model 30 1-1/2-ton dump truck appears to carry the Armleder radiator emblem shown above and also displays a large oval shaped "Armleder" nameplate emblem mounted on the step plate.

Armleder Model 30 dump truck (1922)  garyalannelson

Close up showing radiator emblem & step plate emblem (1922)

Some Armleder trucks also displayed the "Armleder" name on oval shaped body side nameplates mounted under the entrance to the driver's cabin, see example in the Armleder truck photo on the following advertisement from 1920. This may be the same emblem as the step plate shown above.

Armleder truck ad (1920)   ebay

Armleder truck with body side nameplate under entrance to driver's cabin (1920)   ebay

There was a new oval shaped Armleder radiator emblem from about 1930. This is the red and white enamel Armleder radiator emblem shown above at the top of this post and again below. This Armleder radiator emblem is very rare.

This is an Armleder radiator emblem (c1930-1936)   mjs
Size: 140mm wide 45mm high    MM: Fox

If you have better details and the dates of use of Armleder emblems, please let me know, in order to update this post.