Brooks Steam Motors

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Brooks Steam Motors Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1923
resolution 1929
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Stratford , Canada
management Oland J. Brooks
Branch Automobiles

Brooks Steam Motors Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Oland J. Brooks founded the company on March 14, 1923 in Stratford . He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Brooks . Two Brooks-led taxi companies from Stratford and Toronto were bulk buyers. Bankruptcy followed in 1927 . In 1929 the company was dissolved. A total of around 180 vehicles were built. This made Brooks the second most successful manufacturer of steam cars in America during the 1920s.

vehicles

Only vehicles with steam engines were on offer . Eric H. Delling designed the two-cylinder engine . The prototype was an open touring car . Only four-door sedans followed .

The original price was initially 3885 Canadian dollars . In 1927 it was reduced to $ 2,885. At the final auction following the dissolution, the last vehicles fetched between $ 150 and $ 400.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Brooks (II).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 200. (English)