Pope-Robinson was part of the Pope automobile group of companies founded by Colonel Albert Pope

Albert Augustus Pope

Albert Augustus Pope was a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel who founded the Pope Manufacturing Company in 1877. -Birth:...

 manufacturing Brass Era

Brass Era car

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 automobile

Automobile

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s in Hyde Park, Massachusetts

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. The company could trace its roots back to Bramwell-Robinson who started as paper box machinery makers going on to make some single-cylinder 3-wheeled cars between 1899 and 1901. The two founders split up in 1902 to each make their own models under their own names, the Bramwell

Bramwell

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, which continued until 1904 and the Robinson which originally appeared in 1900. The Robinsons were originally made by John T Robinson and Company becoming the Robinson Motor Vehicle Company in 1902 before joining the Pope group later that year. The last cars were made in 1904.

The 1904 Robinson was a touring car

Touring car

A touring car, or tourer, is an open car seating five or more. Touring cars may have two or four doors. Often, the belt line is lowered in the front doors to give the car a more sportive character. They were often fitted with a folding roof and side curtains. Engines on early models were either in...

 model. Equipped with a tonneau

Tonneau

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, it could seat 5 passengers and sold for $5000. The vertically mounted water-cooled straight-4

Straight-4

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, situated at the front of the car, produced 24 hp (17.9 kW). A 3-speed sliding transmission was fitted. The channel steel-framed car weighed 2600 lb (1179 kg). This advanced model, based on the Système Panhard used a modern cellular radiator and competed with the top-line European vehicles.