- Ottawa Car Company
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A streetcar built by the Ottawa Car Company for the Toronto system
Ottawa Car Company was a builder of streetcars for the Canadian market and was founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1891. The plant was located at Kent and Slater Streets, a short distance from Parliament Hill. The company was a subsidiary of Ottawa Electric Railway Company, in turn controlled by Ahearn & Soper.
It was renamed Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company in 1917 and again as Ottawa Car and Aircraft Limited in 1937.
The Ahearn family retained control of the company until 1948 when they sold Ottawa Car & Aircraft Corporation (renamed during World War II) to the Mailman Corporation.[1] The new owners never carried on the business and ceased operations as streetcars were being abandoned by cities across North America.[2] The city of Ottawa abandoned its own streetcar network in 1959.
Contents
Products
Streetcars
- Small Peter Witt streetcars
- Snow Sweepers
- Interurban railcars
- Single End Double Truck streetcar
Aircraft
- produced Armstrong Whitworth Atlas and Armstrong Whitworth Siskin fighters for Armstrong Whitworth[3]
- produced Avro Tutor and Avro Prefect trainers for Avro[3]
- Armstrong Siddeley engines[3]
- Aircraft parts for World War II: Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricanes and Avro Ansons[3]
- bomb doors, flaps, ailerons, and elevators for Avro Lancaster bombers
Clients
- Edmonton Radial Railway
- Toronto Transportation Commission
- Ottawa Transportation Commission (Ottawa Electric Railway Company)
- Hamilton Street Railway (Hamilton Radial Electric Railway)
- Winnipeg Transit
- Montreal Street Railway
- South Western Traction Company/London & Lake Erie Railway
- Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Rapid Railway
- London Street Railway
- Montreal Tramways Company
References
- ^ "Railway Rolling Stock Industry in Canada". Nakina.net. http://www.nakina.net/other/builders/builders1.html#Ottawa. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
- ^ "Ottawa-making a capital - Google Books". Books.google.ca. http://books.google.ca/books?id=_Q9Bb4EiAyoC&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=Ottawa+Car+Manufacturing&source=bl&ots=3QAcG9xvcj&sig=3XX88NiOzBhRehv7HqznC88WVJY&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Ottawa%20Car%20Manufacturing&f=false. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
- ^ a b c d "Ottawa Car And Aircraft Ltd". Aviastar.org. http://www.aviastar.org/manufacturers/1605.html. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
External links
Categories:- Horsecar manufacturers
- Manufacturing companies of Canada
- Rail vehicle manufacturers of Canada
- Companies based in Ottawa
- Streetcar builders
- Ottawa stubs
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