McLaughlin (car brand)

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1912 McLaughlin Model 41 Touring
McLaughlin-Buick from 1934

McLaughlin and McLaughlin-Buick were Canadian car brands.

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The automobile manufacturer McLaughlin Motor Car Company was founded as the McLaughlin Carriage Company in the village of Enniskillen 20 km southeast of Oshawa, Ontario , Canada . The manufacture of horse-drawn carriages began in the mid-19th century. In 1876 the company was relocated to Oshawa. The company was the most successful carriage manufacturer at the time with 25,000 carriages a year and was renamed McLaughlin Carriage Company, Ltd. in 1901 . renamed.

Automobile manufacture began in 1907 under the leadership of Colonel Sam McLaughlin . There was a connection with William C. Durant , who had just bought into Buick , a brand that would later belong to General Motors .

From 1908 to 1922 the cars were sold as McLaughlin . In 1923 the brand name was changed to McLaughlin-Buick , although it remained until 1942. After that, McLaughlin fell away and the cars were only called Buick . Until 1914 the automobiles were painted in the same colors as the carriages. This meant that each vehicle got up to 15 coats of paint. McLaughlin then revolutionized the painting of automobiles.

In 1918 the McLaughlin family sold their shares in General Motors, but Sam McLaughlin continued to run the company in his capacity as CEO of General Motors Canada, while also serving as vice president of the parent company in the United States.

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Web links

Commons : McLaughlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 991. (English)
  2. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter McLaughlin; McLaughlin-Buick.