Gray-There Motors

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Gray-Dort Motors Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1915
resolution 1925
Seat Chatham , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Gray-There from 1915

Gray-Dort Motors Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Chatham company was owned by William Gray Sons-Campbell , known as William Gray & Sons Co. Ltd. from 1856 worked in coach and sledge construction. In 1915 the production of automobiles began with a license from the Dort Motor Car Company . The brand name was Gray-Dort . The production stop at Dort in 1924 led to major problems. Negotiations with Hudson Motor Car Co. , Nash Motors and Gray Motor did not result in a conclusion. Production ended in 1924, and existing vehicles were sold until 1925.

A source states that Gray-There was at times the top-selling automobile manufacturer in Canada. According to another source, the sales figures were higher for a while as the competitor Chevrolet from General Motors Canada , although their vehicles were much cheaper. A total of around 25,000 or around 26,000 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The 1915 models were US models with different trademarks and hubcaps .

The models from 1916 were based on the models from Dort, but were in some cases better equipped. Some sports versions had no US counterparts . The 1918 Special was even exported to the USA . The 1922 Special is said to have been the first Canadian car with an automatic reversing light. Some coupes named Harvard and Yale were also on offer.

A four-cylinder engine from Lycoming powered most vehicles. Until 1918 it had a displacement of 2727 cm³ , then a displacement of 3146 cm³. From 1924 a six-cylinder engine from the Falls Motor Corporation with a displacement of 3205 cc was also added.

Web links

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gray-Dort.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 646. (English)