HE Bourassa

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HE Bourassa
legal form
founding 1899
resolution 1926
Seat Montreal , Canada
management Henri-Emile Bourassa
Branch Automobiles

HE Bourassa was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Henri-Emile Bourassa founded the company in Montreal in 1899 . He produced various individual items, some of them on behalf of customers. The brand name was Bourassa . He also designed two models for Ledoux Carriage . Production ended in 1926.

vehicles

The first vehicle was a two-seat runabout . Later a touring product with seven seats was created.

The most famous model was the Six , which was completed in 1926. The basis was a chassis from the Rickenbacker Motor Company . A self-made six-cylinder engine with side valves propelled the vehicle. After six years of use, the vehicle was scrapped.

literature

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 Bourassa.
  2. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 184. (English)