Попе Толедо: Американдық көлік өндірушісінің тарихы

Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer
The Pope Toledo was the luxury marque of the Pope Motor Car Company founded by Colonel Albert A. Pope, and was a manufacturer of Brass Era automobiles in Toledo, Ohio between 1903 and 1909. The Pope Toledo was the successor to the Toledo of the International Motor Car Company.

The 1903 Pope Toledo was a four wheel, front engined, two seater open car. It was powered by a straight 3 cylinder 182 cubic inch (2983 cc) engine with the then unusual feature of a detachable cylinder head. Valve operation was mechanical and the engine speed was governed at 600 RPM. Drive was through a 3 speed gearbox with chains to each rear wheel. The chassis was mainly wood with a steel sub frame carrying the main mechanical components. The car had a wheelbase of 7 feet (2 m) and a track of 4 feet (1 m). The 1904 model was a larger touring car. Equipped with a rear entrance tonneau body, it could seat 5 passengers and sold for $3,500, 3500.0 in 1904 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years. The vertically mounted water cooled straight 4, situated at the front of the car, produced 24hp (17.9kW). A 3 speed sliding transmission was fitted. The channel steel framed car weighed 2350lb (1066kg). This modern Système Panhard car had spark and throttle levers on steering wheel, a novelty at the time. In 1908, Bobby Sheldon brought a 1906 Pope Toledo down the Yukon to Fairbanks, the first car brought to Alaska. By 1907 the company models included limousines and seven seat cars. In 1909 the company was taken over by Richard D. Apperson of the American National Bank of Lynchburg, Virginia (and no relation to Apperson of Kokomo). The Apperson deal failed and the Pope Motor Car Company receivers sold the factory to Overland.