Harding machine

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Harding Machine Co.
legal form
founding 1911
resolution 1912
Seat London , Canada
management Fred Harding
Branch Automobiles

Harding Machine Co. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles . Another source uses the name Harding Motor Car Co. Another Harding Motor Car Co. was in the USA from 1915 to 1916 .

Company history

Fred Harding founded the company in London in 1911 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Harding . Production ended the following year. The sales figures remained low. A slogan was: A Canadian Car for Canadians , so a Canadian car for Canadians .

vehicles

An open two-seater runabout was on offer . It was similar to the Hupmobile 20 from Hupmobile and cost just as much. A four-cylinder engine from GB&S powered the vehicles.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Harding (I).
  2. a b c d e f g h George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 671. (English)