Pope-Hartford



The Pope-Hartford was one of the automobile marques of the Pope Manufacturing Company founded by Colonel Albert A. Pope, and was a manufacturer of Brass Era automobiles in Hartford between 1904 and 1914.

History
Introduced on the market for 1904, the first Pope-Hartford was a single-cylinder runabout. A twin-cylinde r followed in 1905, and a four-cylinder in 1906 A six-cylinder Pope-Hartford did not arrive until 1911.

A 1910 Pope-Hartford Forty won the free-for-all race in November of 1909 celebrating the 300th anniversary of the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Don Gaspar de Portola, and for 1911 Pope-Hartford made available a chain-drive Fiat chassis fitted with a Pope engine and marketed as the Fiat-Portola.

On August 10, 1909, Colonel Albert A. Pope died and his brother George took over. By 1914, Pope-Hartford production continued under receivership. Pope Manufacturing Company had been selling-off its property and the Pope-Hartford plant was sold in 1915.