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Monarch was an automobile marque produced by Ford Canada from 1946 through 1957 and from 1959 to 1961. The Monarch was marketed as its own brand of car rather than as a Ford, with its own model names which included Richelieu, Lucerne and Sceptre.
There were two unique-to-Canada variants of the plexiglass roof: the 1954 Meteor Rideau Skyliner (production 9,764), and the even more rare 1954 Monarch Lucerne Sun Valley (production 200 est.). Meteor was a stand-alone marque sold though Mercury dealerships. Correspondingly, the Monarch was a stand-alone marque that was sold through Ford ...
Meteor was a marque of automobiles offered by Ford Motor Company of Canada from 1949 to 1976. ... 1956 Meteor Rideau Victoria. ... Monarch Meteor, by R. Perry Zavitz;
From 1946 to 1957, to attract buyers of medium-price vehicles, Ford of Canada marketed the Monarch brand in their dealership network. Using much of the body and trim of the Mercury, Monarch was a three-model line with the Richelieu, Lucerne and Sceptre matching the Mercury Monterey, Montclair, and Park Lane, respectively.
Meteor: 1961 1963 2 Full-size (1961), mid-size (1962–1963) S-55: 1962 1967 2 Full-size Marauder: 1963 2004 3 High performance version full-size car Cyclone: 1964 1971 5 Mid-range muscle car Cougar: 1967 2002 8 Pony car (1967–1973), personal luxury car (1974–1997), sports compact (1999–2002) Marquis: 1967 1986 4 Entry-level full-size ...
Alongside the creation of the Monarch and Meteor sub-brands, Ford of Canada introduced trucks to the Mercury division. At the time, few rural communities offered both the Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealership networks, miniminizing model overlap and allowing for greater coverage for potential truck buyers.
For 1956, Mercury sedans underwent an exterior revision. [7] The side trim was revised to a full-length multi-tier chrome spear, with two types of two-tone paint combinations, offering the traditional approach of a roof color over a different body color, and "Flo-tone" where the roof and lower body were painted in one color and the upper body ...
The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper-lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the United States prevented the use of dome cars there.