Edward "Eddy" Fleming

1882 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Edward "Eddy" Fleming
  Born	Oct 1882	, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1911	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Foreman, Motor Works
  Residence	1911	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Methodist
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-210003
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I210003	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  A made-in-Cambridge hybrid car makes a comeback, 100 years later CAMBRIDGE 97 A good technology sometimes fails because it is ahead of its time. Then it can make a comeback, even 100 years later. In Cambridge, a hybrid car, the Lexus RX 450h, is now coming off a Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada production line. The hybrid has been produced in Japan but with the growing popularity of hybrids, it is also being made here, and Toyota was all set to introduce it as "the first full hybrid car to be manufactured in Canada." But wait. Not so fast. One hundred years ago, a couple of entrepreneurs over on Dickson Street in Cambridge, which was then Galt, beat them to the punch. Moffat St. Clair and Eddy Fleming purchased the remnants of a failed car company, Canadian Motors Ltd. which made the Galt Touring car in 1911. They renamed it the Galt Motor Company. They built and sold some gas-powered cars to generate some money to fund a new car that was based on their improved gas-electric hybrid design. In 1914, they introduced the Galt Gas-Electric car to the world. It used a combination of gasoline and kerosene to power a Westinghouse generator that was coupled to a gasoline engine. The engine turned a turbine that generated electricity that could be stored in batteries beneath the floor. It only had a top speed of 30 miles an hour (48 km/h). So it wasn't quite as powerful as gasoline cars of the time. But it was efficient. It was advertised as being able to travel a distance of 70 miles (112 kilometres) on a gallon of gasoline. It could travel for 15 miles (24 kilometres) on the electric charge alone, reducing the impact of running out of gas (a big risk in the days before there were gas stations at every corner). They described it as a "coast-to-coast storage gas-electric car." Two of the Galt gas-electric vehicles were built in 1914, but only one still exists. It has been at the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa.... Simone, R. (2014). A made-in-Cambridge hybrid car makes a comeback, 100 years later | GuelphMercury.com. GuelphMercury.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017, from https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4503820-a-made-in-cambridge-hybrid-car-makes-a-comeback-100-years-later/

  
  

• Sources

  [S572] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1911, Div. 17 Page 9.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Oct 1882 - , Ontario, Canada Occupation - Foreman, Motor Works - 1911 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth