Friday 15 November 2013
EVERY YEAR A NEW CADILLAC FOR DR MACLAUCHLAN
Retired high calibre Albertan defense lawyer and author Jack Pecover, who
in his teenage years lived next door to Dr Robert Henry MacLauchlan during the
late 1940s and early 1950s, recalled how every year (once post-war automobile
manufacture had resumed), MacLauchlan acquired a new Cadillac. The average new Cadillac
retailed in Canada in 1950 for about $3500. A midrange Cadillac today will run
about $60,000. In the Calgary of 1950, there appears to be only one Cadillac
dealer, Calgary Motor Products Ltd, located at Fourth Ave and Second Street
West, the president of which was S J Parkinson. It seems likely that the doctor
would have bought his cars in Calgary and very likely from this dealer. To that
end, we invite any former Calgary Motor Products employees or descendants of
former employers to contact us at this website concerning well known – but infamous – customers – such as Dr Robert
Henry MacLauchlan. We believe in outreach – even after 60 years, because you
never know. Someone might remember something valuable!
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