Chatham Motor Car Company
| Automobile manufacturing | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Genre | Touring cars |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Defunct | 1909 |
| Headquarters | Chatham, Ontario, Canada |
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Area served
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Canada |
| Products | Vehicles |
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Number of employees
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40 |
The Chatham Motor Car Company was a Canadian brass era automobile manufacturer, based in Chatham, Ontario, from 1906 to 1909.
The company was created in 1906. Investors included Joseph T. O'Keefe and Thomas A. Drew (partners in the O'Keefe and Drew pork retailers), T.K. Holmes (who became company president). W.J. Taylor (vice president), D. N. McMullen, Thomas Dillon (secretary-treasurer), J.F. Dillon (general manager).
They established a factory in a two-story building on Adelaide Street, about halfway between McGregor Creek and King Street, previously used by Hyslop and Ronald to build fire engines. The plant had 40 employees.
The company built only one model, the Chatham, right-hand drive five-passenger tourer with a 20 horsepower (15 kW; 20 PS) (later 25 horsepower (19 kW; 25 PS))watercooled four cylinder engine.
The Chatham was priced at C$2500, when the Colt Runabout was priced at US$1500, the FAL US$1750, the Enger 40 and (in 1905) the Ford Model F were US$2000, while the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout was US$650 and (in 1907) the $700 for the Ford Model S was US$700.
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