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Tudhope car, built in Orillia, had a price tag of $2,500 in 1913

Tudhope Motor Company in Orillia was known throughout the land for the automobiles manufactured at Colborne Street factory
99 1913 Tudhope - Edited
This postcard is a unique novelty card manufactured in the U.S. It shows the Tudhope car manufactured in Orillia.

Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.

Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.

In 1910, after many years in the carriage business, J.B. Tudhope formed the Tudhope Motor Company in Orillia, and built the Tudhope-Everitt car that sold for $1,200 to $1,500.

By 1912, the Everitt name was dropped and the Tudhope was manufactured with a price tag of over $1,600.

This advertising postcard is a unique novelty card manufactured in the U.S. The instructions on the bottom of the card read “Rub a lead pencil or edge of coin over the tires of the TUDHOPE above and blank space beneath the running board and see how to eliminate every possibility of SKIDDING."

When found, this postcard had been rubbed, to reveal chains on all four tires.


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