1932 Ottawa Trolley Car Manufacturing Co. Catalog

1932 Ottawa Trolley Car Manufacturing Co. CatalogThe Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co. produced trolley cars, electric locomotives and motor coaches for nearly every transit system in Canada. Founded in the 1890s by Thomas Ahearn, Warren Soper and William Wylie, the company produced streetcars and self propelled interurbans under license from J. G. Brill. The Great Depression destroyed Ottawa Cars traction and railroad business. Except for a few cars built in the late 1940s for the Ottawa Electric

The Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co. produced trolley cars, electric locomotives and motor coaches for nearly every transit system in Canada. Founded in the 1890s by Thomas Ahearn, Warren Soper and William Wylie, the company produced streetcars and self-propelled interurbans under license from J.G. Brill. The Great Depression destroyed Ottawa CarÕs traction and railroad business. Except for a few cars built in the late 1940Õs for the Ottawa Electric Railway, not a single piece of rolling stock was built by the company after 1933. The company sold transit buses through 1947, after which time it was sold and liquidated. This catalog, which dates from the early 1930Õs, shows the Ottawa Car Company at its zenith. It includes data on 52-passenger Peter Witt cars, 30-passenger Birney Safety Cars, gas-powered Brills, locomotives, buses, and various accessories. This catalog has been slightly enlarged and reformatted for readability, but care has been taken to preserve the integrity
of the text.