Canadian Carriage Factories
| Canadian Carriage Company Canadian Carriage Factories Ltd. |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Brockville , Canada |
| management | Thomas J. Storey |
| Number of employees | 400 |
| Branch | Carriages , wagons , sleighs , bodies , automobiles |
Canadian Carriage Factories Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of carriages , wagons , sleds , bodies and automobiles . The brand name of the automobiles was Brockville .
The company was founded in Brockville in 1892 as the Canada Carriage Company and at times employed more than four hundred people. This made it one of the most important in town. In 1909 it was sold and used by Thomas J. Storey as Canadian Carriage Factories Ltd. reorganized. In 1911 the rights to the American Everritt Thirty were acquired, which also formed the basis for the successful EMF Model 30 .
Canada Carriage built about 80 copies of the Brockville 30 . A subsidiary was then set up for automobile production, Brockville Atlas Auto Co. Ltd. who built the successor to the 30th .
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In 1915 Brockville Atlas was reorganized as the Canadian Briscoe Motor Company . The company, still a subsidiary of the Carriage Factories , now produced a Canadian version of the Briscoe , which was sold as the Brockville-Briscoe .
On Sunday, October 27, 1918, a devastating fire broke out at Carriage Factories . The factory that made all the bodies for Brockville , Brockville-Atlas and Brockville-Briscoe burned down completely and 200 workers lost their jobs. Some bodies could be saved, but the plant was not rebuilt. It is unclear when the company was dissolved. Automobiles were built until 1921. It is unclear who supplied the bodies.
literature
- Beverly Rae Kimes (ed.); Henry Austin Clark Jr. Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-428-4 .
- GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. Dutton Press, New York, 2nd Edition, 1973; ISBN 0-525-08351-0 .
- GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979; ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .
- James J. Flink: America Adopts the Automobile - 1895-1910. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970, ISBN 0-262-06036-1 .
- Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Editor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X .
Web links
- The Frontenac Motor Company & The Ford Model T: Brockville-Atlas. (English) (accessed October 12, 2017)
- The Frontenac Motor Company & The Ford Model T: Brockville-Briscoe. (English) (accessed October 12, 2017)