Chatham Motor Car

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Chatham Motor Car Co. Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1906
resolution 1909
Seat Chatham , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Chatham Motor Car Co. Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Chatham company began manufacturing automobiles in 1906. The brand name was Chatham . Production ended in late 1908 or early 1909. In 1909 the company was dissolved. A total of around 150 vehicles were built. Canadian Pacific Railway took 20 pieces.

The Anhut Motor Car Company of Detroit took over the plant in 1910, made there but no car.

vehicles

The first model 20/22 HP had an air-cooled two-cylinder engine from Reeves , friction gear and cardan drive .

In the summer of 1907 a model followed with a water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 25  hp . William Gray & Sons supplied the bodies.

In 1908 a larger four-cylinder model 30 HP appeared .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Chatham.
  2. a b c d e f g George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 266. (English)