Nova Scotia Carriage & Motor Car

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Nova Scotia Carriage Co.
Nova Scotia Carriage & Motor Car Co.
legal form Company
founding 1868
resolution 1914
Seat Amherst , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Nova Scotia Carriage & Motor Car Co. , previously Nova Scotia Carriage Co. , was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Nova Scotia Carriage Co. in 1868 in Kentville to coach manufacturing founded. In 1910 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was McKay . There was also a collaboration with the Penn Motor Car Company from the USA , which had to give up in 1912 or 1913. Planning amounted to 1000 vehicles annually. In 1912 the company moved to Amherst and was now called Nova Scotia Carriage & Motor Car Co. In 1914 production ended. A total of around 25 vehicles were built in Kentville and 190 or 200 vehicles in Amherst.

vehicles

The first model 30 had a four-cylinder engine from Buda Engine Co. It developed 30  hp from a displacement of 3500 cc . A larger model followed, which had a 40 hp engine.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter McKay (II).
  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 , pp. 989-990. (English)