Canadian Crow Motor

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Canadian Crow Motor Co. Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1915
resolution 1918
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Mount Brydges , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Canadian Crow Motor Co. Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Mount Brydges in 1915 . The owners were wealthy merchants and farmers with little experience in automobile construction. They started producing automobiles under a license from Crow-Elkhart . The brand name was Canadian Crow . Around 100 touring cars and five roadsters were built in 1916, but not many vehicles after that. Production ended in early 1918 when the company went bankrupt .

vehicles

Many parts for the vehicles were obtained from the USA . Axles and bodies were made in Canada.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Crow (II); Crow-Elkhart (II).
  2. a b c d e f g h i George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 244. (English)