McLaughlin Motor Car Company

McLaughlin Motor Car Company

Formerly	List McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited (1907–1918) McLaughlin-Buick (1915–1918)[note 1] Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada Limited (1915–1918)
Company type	Private
Industry	Automotive
Predecessor	McLaughlin Carriage Company
Founded	1907
Founder	Robert McLaughlin
Defunct	1918
Fate	Sold to General Motors
Successor	General Motors of Canada
Headquarters	Oshawa, Ontario , Canada
Products	Carriages (1907–1915) Automobiles (1907–1918)

McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited was a Canadian manufacturer of automobiles headquartered in Oshawa, Ontario. Founded by Robert McLaughlin, it once was the largest carriage manufacturing factory in the British Empire.^[1]

Around 1905, Robert's son Sam starting building automobiles. By 1907, this enterprise had grown to include the manufacture of McLaughlin automobiles with Buick engines. In 1915, the company manufactured Chevrolet vehicles for the U.S. and Canadian market. The carriage end of the business was then sold to Carriage Factories Limited of Orillia, Ontario.^[2] James Brockett Tudhope's Carriage Factories would end carriage production towards manufacturing of truck and car parts.^[3] The Tudhope firm was sold in 1924 to Cockshutt Plow Company and merged into the Cockshutt Plow owned Canada Carriage and Body Limited of Brantford, Ontario.^[4] The Brantford-based firm is now Trailmobile Canada.

McLaughlin was taken over by General Motors in 1918 and merged into General Motors of Canada.

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