LeRoy Manufacturing

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LeRoy Manufacturing Co.
legal form
founding 1899
resolution 1900s
Seat Kitchener , Canada
management
  • Milton Good
  • Nelson Good
Branch Automobiles

LeRoy Manufacturing Co. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Milton (born January 26, 1870, died 1955) and Nelson Good (born January 20, 1865, died 1914) founded the company in 1899. The seat was in what was then Berlin , later renamed Kitchener . They started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was LeRoy . Production ended in 1904. Up to then about 30 vehicles had been built, but not all of them were completed. After that, they still sold stationary engines .

vehicles

The first vehicle had a single-cylinder engine of its own design. It was installed in the stern of a Jacob Kaufman carriage.

In 1901 a steam car was converted from Mobile to a petrol car.

Series production began in 1902. It was based on the Oldsmobile Curved Dash , but had a different front design. A single cylinder engine propelled the vehicles. The open body offered space for two people. The brake did not act on the wheels, but on the transmission .

Another source names instead of these three models a highwheeler with a single-cylinder engine, later with a three-cylinder engine, which only had the gear brake in the planetary gear , as well as the license production of the Oldsmobile Curved Dash.

The Waterloo Region Museum in Kitchener and the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa have survived vehicles.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter LeRoy (I).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 893. (English)
  3. ↑ Information on Milton Good (accessed December 17, 2016)
  4. ↑ Information about Nelson Good (accessed December 17, 2016)
  5. ↑ Information from the Waterloo Region Museum (English, accessed December 17, 2016)