Oxford Motor Cars & Foundries

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Oxford Motor Cars & Foundries Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1882
resolution ?
Seat Montreal , Canada
management Pontbriand
Branch Mechanical engineering , automobiles

Oxford Motor Cars & Foundries Ltd. was a Canadian company and manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Members of the French-Canadian Pontbriand family founded the mechanical engineering company in Sorel-Tracy in 1882 . In 1913, already in Montreal , they hired the American vehicle designer HM Potter to enter the automotive business. The brand name was Oxford . Many parts were sourced from the USA . After the import became difficult due to the First World War , production ended in 1915. A total of three passenger cars and one truck were built .

vehicles

The D-Four and C-Six models were planned , of which only the latter was actually produced. A six-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. Two touring cars , a roadster and a chassis for a truck body have survived.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Oxford (III).
  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. 1166. (English)