Engesa Logo: Meaning and History

The Engesa logo is a black ring with two white letter E shapes stacked inside it, a double-E monogram. Engesa was a Brazilian maker of trucks, jeeps and armored vehicles, founded in 1958 and closed by bankruptcy in 1993.

Engesa Logo

The Engesa symbol is built from simple geometry: a thick black circle with a white centre. In the middle sit two angular E letters, one above the other and slightly offset, which match the initials of Engenheiros Especializados. The Engesa emblem is drawn in a single colour, black on white, so it works as a black and white mark on any background. Since the company built trucks, jeeps and military vehicles, it is both the Engesa truck logo and the Engesa badge of its armored cars. This page offers the Engesa logo PNG with a transparent background.

Engesa Logo History

The Engesa logo history is short: the ring with the stacked E letters is the one design the company used on its vehicles, and it stayed in place until the bankruptcy in 1993.

Engesa History

Engenheiros Especializados S.A., known as Engesa, was founded in 1958 by the engineer José Luiz Whitaker Ribeiro. It was based in the state of São Paulo and began as a supplier of parts for the oil industry, then moved into modifying trucks and built ties with the Brazilian military.

In 1972 Engesa received technology from the Brazilian Army for two armored vehicles, the EE-9 Cascavel and the EE-11 Urutu. Both were 6x6 wheeled vehicles with the company’s patented “boomerang” suspension, and as simple, low-cost machines they sold well in the developing world, together with the EE-25 truck. Iraq and Libya were the largest customers, and vehicles went to more than eighteen countries in all.

After a sales drop in 1981 nearly bankrupted the company, Engesa diversified. Its best-known civilian product was the Engesa 4 jeep, and the number of employees peaked at around 10,000 in the mid-1980s. It then developed the EE-T1 Osório main battle tank, built mostly from foreign components. The investment put Engesa in debt just as demand fell with the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the Cold War, and the large Osório contract that could have saved it never came. By 1988 the company was in a pre-bankruptcy state, and it went bankrupt in 1993.