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Manufactured Home Ontario Canada

Manufactured Home Ontario Canada

An automobile manufacturer in the United States, Benjamin Briscoe came to Canada in the autumn of 1915 to expand his business established in Jackson, Michigan, the Briscoe Motor Corporation. Merging with the Brockville Atlas Automobile Company, the firm opened the Canadian Briscoe Motor Company. Holding rights to the American designed car “Everitt,” the Atlas plant operated by Tom Storey was already producing large five- to seven-passenger cars with 40 horsepower engines. With experienced and capable men at the helm, the new Canadian company was ready for new business.

Carriages to Motor Cars

Tom Storey was also the vice-president of the Canada Carriage Company, a branch of Tudhope’s Carriage Company. Combining the strengths of the new Briscoe factory and the Carriage Company, the Carriage Company built the bodies for the Canadian Briscoe Automobile Company (while still providing services for other firms). Previous to taking on the modern business of motorized transportation, the large Carriage Company factory workers built high-quality horse-drawn vehicles such as wagons, sleighs, phaeton-style carriages and surreys. Their products were sold across Canada and the British Empire.

A glimpse of the possibilities ahead was observed when one of the company’s carriage bodies was used to build a test motor car in 1898. “An experimental automobile designed by William J. Still for the Canadian Motor Syndicate used a carriage built by the Canada Carriage Co. as a chassis, and added his engine and controls to it,” said the Brockville History Album in “Brockville’s Canada Carriage Company 1879 – 1930.” The future of the motorized vehicle had arrived.