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About APM Car Logos

Express the passion of your automotive marque with an apm car logo, these high quality products are hand-made in plaster and come ready painted and ready to hang on the wall.

Our plaques make fantastic gifts for the car enthusiast whether it be a birthday or fathers day.

We are a small family business based in Coventry, England, UK.

We specialise in the manufacture of fibrous plaster mouldings for the construction industry.

All my life I've had a keen interest in cars, from classic to supercars to hotrods. I've always wished I'd been involved in the motor industry earlier in life. Then I thought how about manufacturing large car type logos that could be hung on the wall.

I went about making the models in 3D of various car badges, then I poured silicone over the top to make a reverse mould, cast and reinforce in plaster, then when dry seal and paint the plaster the same colour as the original car badge.
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Automobile History

Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, built the first steam-powered vehicle around 1672 which was of small scale and designed as a toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger, but quite possibly, was the first working steam-powered vehicle ('auto-mobile').

Although Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is often credited with building the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769, by adapting an existing horse-drawn vehicle, this claim is disputed by some[citation needed], who doubt Cugnot's three-wheeler ever ran or was stable. What is not in doubt is that Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive in 1801, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle, although it was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and would have been of little practical use.

In Russia, in the 1780s, Ivan Kulibin developed a human-pedalled, three-wheeled carriage with modern features such as a flywheel, brake, gear box, and bearings; however, it was not developed further.