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A 1907 Thomas Flyer on display in Toronto 1907 Thomas Flyer at Stahls Automotive Collection. The E.R. Thomas Motor Company built automobiles from 1902 to 1919. The first Models were the 1902 Model 17, which was available in either a detachable rear entrance tonneau or runabout, equipped with a single cylinder 8hp and 2 speed planetary transmission.
The Anniesland factory was closed by 1925 and car production was moved to the taxi factory at Paisley, where a new model, the 14.40, with a sidevalve engine of 2297 cc with an aluminium cylinder head was introduced. The engine was increased to 2391 cc in 1925 and the car redesignated the 16.40.
In February 1919, an airplane with a Wright engine broke the world's speed record at 163⅔ miles per hour. [3] In November 1920, an airplane with a 300-horsepower Wright engine came in second place in the first Pulitzer Trophy Race in Long Island, New York. [3] Other planes using Wright engines came in fourth and fifth place in the race. [3]
Fageol produced two luxury automobiles, but production was halted when the supply of Hall-Scott SOHC six-cylinder engines was diverted to build airplanes for the war in World War I. The first Fageol farm tractor was a re-labeled Hamilton Walking Tractor, [2] designed and built by Rush E. Hamilton of Geyserville, California. As a result of the ...
The company was founded in Mississauga in 1975 as Ontario Bus and Truck, Inc., [2] [3] a private company led by Arnold Wollschlaeger. [4] It was renamed Ontario Bus Industries (OBI) in 1977 and introduced its first prototype bus in 1978, under the model name Orion I. [2] Don Sheardown purchased the company from Wollschlaeger's estate in 1979.
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Its wings were shorter than the Model H for increased speed. [3] 3/4 rear view of a Model H. The Model H was a two place, side-by-side configuration seating, open cockpit, biplane with twin rudders, powered with a single engine, propelled by two chain driven pusher propellers. The engine was fully enclosed in the nose of the aircraft with a ...
This has a 6-cylinder Dorman 6JUL side-valve petrol engine, and a 3-speed Howard gearbox. It worked at the Ford Paper Works in Sunderland until preserved in 1972. 2 foot gauge locomotive No. 984 built in 1931. [19] The only remaining narrow-gauge locomotive built by Howards. [20]