Tate Electrics

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Tate Electrics Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1912
resolution 1914
Seat Windsor , Canada
Branch Automobiles

Tate Electrics Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Windsor-based company was part of the battery manufacturer Tate Accumulator Co. of Canada . In 1912 the production of automobiles and commercial vehicles began . The brand name was Tate . Production ended in 1914.

vehicles

Toronto Automobile Show, 1912. The picture shows the first electric car built in Canada, the 1893 Fetherstonhaugh and likely a Tate Electric Brougham.

Electric cars were on offer . In the first year, two unfinished prototypes were presented at auto shows in Toronto and Montreal. The following year there were two cars in the range. Coupé and Roadster both had 2741 mm wheelbase and shaft drive .

There were also four different types of commercial vehicles, also with electric motors and cardan drive. A light, closed delivery van and a truck with a payload of 2 shillings were available. tn. (approx. 1.8 t).

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tate.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1571. (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 .

Web links

Commons : Tate Electric vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tate.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1571. (English)
  3. ^ GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 , p. 607.