Canadian Motor Syndicate

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Canadian Motor Syndicate
legal form
founding 1897
resolution 1899
Seat Toronto , Canada
management William J. Still
Branch Automobiles

Fetherstonhaugh electric car from 1893

Canadian Motor Syndicate was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

William J. Still made an electric car for patent attorney Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh as early as 1893 , which was named after its buyer. In 1897, Still and partners founded the company in Toronto . The brand name was Canadian Motor Syndicate . Production ended in 1899.

Still then founded the Still Motor Company and continued production under its own brand name.

vehicles

Three models have survived. One was a three-wheeled delivery van with a single front wheel and an electric motor . An electric car had a single rear wheel and a wicker seat between the front wheels, so it was a tricar . Another vehicle had a gasoline engine with 6  hp and the seating arrangement dos-à-dos .

literature

Web links

Commons : Fetherstonhaugh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Canadian Motor Syndicate.
  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)