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The Pope-Hartford car is one of the best-remembered cars of the period; Pope-Hartford cars were apparently reliable vehicles although the design of the Pope-Hartford car was very conservative. A single-cylinder model was included in the 1905 Pope-Hartford car range, and 2-cylinder models were made as late as 1906. Double chain drive was retained in some Pope-Hartford cars for 1908.
In price and size the Pope-Hartford car came between the larger Pope-Toledo and the inexpensive Pope-Tribune.
In 1912, 4- and 6-cylinder Pope-Hartford cars, of 50hp (6.4-litres) and 60hp (7.7-litres) respectively, were part of a large range of 17 different Pope-Hartford carmodels. This type of marketing led to the collapse of the Pope group of companies, which at one period encompassed five makes of cars as well as motorcycles and bicycles. Pope-Hartford cars also offered, in 1911, the FIAT-Portola, a chain-driven FIAT chassis fitted with their own engine.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GMN
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