| Pope-Hartford Pope Manufacturing Company | |
| Founder: | Albert A. Pope |
| Fate: | Bankruptcy |
| Hq Location: | Hartford, Connecticut |
| Hq Location Country: | United States |
| Products: | Automobiles |
| Production: | 4,732 |
| Production Year: | 1904-1914 |
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.[1]
Introduced on the market for 1904, the first Pope-Hartford was a single-cylinder runabout. A twin-cylinde
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.