Dominion Motors (1931)

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Dominion Motors Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1931
resolution 1933
Seat Leaside , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Frontenac from 1932

Dominion Motors Limited was a Canadian automobile manufacturer from Leaside , Ontario . The brand name of the cars was Frontenac .

history

Durant Motors in New York City first used the Frontenac brand name in 1931 for vehicles they manufactured and sold in Canada. The Canadian Durant Motors company was then acquired by a group of Canadian investors who renamed the company Dominion Motors Limited . Production of Durant and Frontenac cars continued. The first Frontenac from 1931 was called the Model 6-18, had a 2769 mm wheelbase and was based on the Durant 6-19.

After the fall of Durant Motors in 1932, Dominion Motors took the De Vaux as a design model. The Frontenac model range in 1932 consisted of two six-cylinder models, the 6-70 with 2769 mm wheelbase, which was basically a revised previous year's model 6-18, and the 6-85 with 2896 mm wheelbase, which was based on the De Vaux 6-80.

Like Durant Motors before, De Vaux Motors Company got into economic difficulties: The company was taken over by its largest lender, Continental Motors Company , at the end of 1932. Continental decided to continue the De Vaux production under its own name and Dominion Motors took the Continental De Vaux as a model. Both companies shared the same range of three models.

The last Frontenac models were the C-400, a four-cylinder model with 2578 mm wheelbase based on the Continental De Vaux Beacon, and the C-600 with 2718 mm wheelbase, based on the six-cylinder Continental De Vaux Flyer. Frontenac imported the Continental De Vaux Ace with 2896 mm wheelbase, also with a six-cylinder engine, from the USA and sold it with its own company emblem as Frontenac Ace.

Continental manufactured cars until 1934, but Frontenac withdrew as early as 1933. Dominion Motors also produced Reo cars and trucks for the Canadian market. Reo used the plant in the early 1950s, and in 1950/1951 Kaiser-Frazer used part of the plant to build Kaiser sedans for the Canadian market.

Models

model Construction period cylinder power wheelbase Superstructures
6-18 1931 6 row 70 bhp (51 kW) 2769 mm Coupé 2 doors, sedan 4 doors
6-70 1932 6 row 70 bhp (51 kW) 2769 mm Coupé 2 doors, sedan 4 doors
6-85 1932 6 row 85 bhp (62.5 kW) 2896 mm Cabriolet 2 doors, Coupé 2 doors, Sedan 4 doors
C-400 1933 4 row 38 bhp (28 kW) 2578 mm Roadster 2 doors, Coupé 2 doors, sedan 2/4 doors
C-600 1933 6 row 65 bhp (48 kW) 2718 mm Roadster 2 doors, Coupé 2 doors, sedan 2/4 doors

literature

  • Perry R. Zavitz: Canadian Cars, 1946-1984. Bookman Publishing, Baltimore MD 1985, ISBN 0-934780-43-9 .
  • Canadian Automotive Information Handbook. Canadian Automotive Information Service, Oakville, Ontario, 1939 edition.
  • Beverly Ray Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. , Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 .
  • John Gunnell (Editor): Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946–1975. Krause Publications, Iola WI 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X .
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Frontenac (III).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 595. (English)

Web links

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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 Frontenac (III).
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 595. (English)