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Comet Motor Co.
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution ?
Seat Montreal , Canada
management
  • Lou D. Robertson
  • Frank Anson
  • Berne Nadall
Branch Automobiles

Comet Motor Co. was a Canadian importer and manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The racing driver Lou D. Robertson, Frank Anson and Berne Nadall founded the company in Montreal in 1907 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Comet . The prices were high and sales were low. Production ended in 1908. A total of between 50 and 200 vehicles were built.

After that, vehicles from Chalmers , Packard and Peerless were imported.

vehicles

The first model had a four-cylinder engine from the Établissements Clément-Bayard with 24  hp . The coupling was supplied by Hele-Shaw from England . Lamps and coolers came from the USA . This model was still offered in 1909, but no longer in production.

In 1908, a larger four-cylinder model with 40 hp and a model with a six-cylinder engine were also in the range.

Others

The Prince of Wales (later King George VI ) was driven in a Comet while visiting Montreal.

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 Comet (III).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 326. (English)