Queen City Cycle & Motor Works

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Queen City Cycle & Motor Works
legal form
founding ?
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Seat Toronto , Canada
management Cornelius Ryerson
Branch vehicles

Queen City Cycle & Motor Works was a Canadian manufacturer of bicycles and automobiles .

Company history

The Toronto company originally made bicycles and tandems . According to one source, tricycles and quadricycles , i.e. three- and four-wheeled motor vehicles that were derived from bicycles and motorcycles , also emerged. 1901 began the production of automobiles under the direction of Cornelius Ryerson. The brand name was Queen . Motor vehicle production ended in 1903.

Car

The model is called a highwheeler by one source . Another source states that the vehicle had folding seats in the front and could accommodate four people in total. A single-cylinder engine of De Dion-Bouton with 823 cc engine capacity was mounted under the seat. The technical implementation of the accelerator and clutch is described as poor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1282. (English)
  2. ↑ 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 Queen (I).