Pope-Hartford 1904-1914 - from bicycle to luxury motorhome
Summary
There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Pope-Hartford. Colonel Albert A. Pope founded five car brands after his success with bicycles. Pope-Hartford was on the market from 1904 to 1914 and excelled with its heavy construction and high quality. However, annual sales were low and bankruptcy led to the end of the brand.
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Instead of various model series, Colonel Albert A. Pope created four car brands to which he added his name: Pope-Robinson (1903/04 only), Pope-Hartford, Pope-Toledo (successful racing cars), Pope-Tribune (small cars) and Pope-Waverley (electric cars). Colonel Pope had made a name for himself in the production of bicycles and founded a kind of GM forerunner in 1899 with the merger of 45 bicycle manufacturers to form the American Bicycle Company. After the turn of the century, Pope also recognized the great future in the automobile. The single-cylinder Pope Hartford was built in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1904. A two-cylinder model followed in 1905 and the first four-cylinder in 1906.
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