Columbia Automobile Company

The Columbia Automobile Company was a leading early Hartford, Connecticut, United States manufacturer of automobiles. The Columbia Automobile Company was created as a joint venture of the Motor Vehicle Division of the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and the Electric Vehicle Company in 1899. At the turn of the Twentieth century they were producing and selling hundreds of vehicles a year under Pope's Columbia brand name, while most gasoline engine automobile manufacturers had made only a few dozen. In 1908, the company was renamed the Columbia Motor Car Co. and in 1910 was acquired by United States Motor Company. The 1904 'Columbia Brougham' was equipped with a tonneau. It could seat 4 passengers and sold for...