Menard Motor Truck

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Windsor Carriage & Delivery Wagon Works (1908–1909)
Menard Auto Buggy Co. (1909–1910)
Menard Commercial Car Co. (1910–1916)
Menard Motor Truck Co. (1917–1920)
legal form Company
founding 1908
resolution 1920
Reason for dissolution Acquisition by Maple Leaf Manufacturing Co.
Seat Windsor , Canada
management Moise L. Menard
Branch Motor vehicles

Menard Motor Truck Co. , formerly Windsor Carriage & Delivery Wagon Works , Menard Auto Buggy Co., and Menard Commercial Car Co. , was a Canadian manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Moise L. Menard founded Windsor Carriage & Delivery Wagon Works in Windsor in 1908 . Byron V. Covert, who previously worked for the Covert Motor Vehicle Company , developed an automobile. The brand name was Menard . In 1909 the company was in Buggy Co. Menard car renamed. Car production ended in 1910, but commercial vehicles were created instead . Further name changes to Menard Commercial Car Co. in 1910 and Menard Motor Truck Co. in 1917 followed. Production ended in 1919.

In 1920 the company was taken over by Maple Leaf Manufacturing Co.

vehicles

The car model was a high wheeler . An air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 16  hp was mounted under the seat. It drove the rear axle via a friction gear and chains. From 1910 the engines were water-cooled .

The trucks had either between 1.5 and 2 tons of payload or between 1 and 3.5 tons of payload. They had a six-cylinder engine of Beaver . In addition, were fire engines in the range.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Menard chapter.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 994. (English)
  • Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Menard chapter.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 994. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d Company information (accessed December 17, 2016)
  4. ^ A b c Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 113.