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Old 22-05-21, 19:29
Bob Phillips Bob Phillips is offline
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CCM (Canada Cycle and Motorcar) was taken over in WW2 by the CDN government for production of war time materials. They had a very large factory in Weston Ontario, now a part of Toronto. While they manufactured motorcars for a few years their big products were bicycles and ice skates. I remember having an ancient CCM bike when I was a kid. Curiously enough the plant was bought out by the Levy family in 1962 and anyone in the military hobby in Canada will remember the huge Levy surplus yard ( which has been referred to on these pages over the past few months) at 1400 Weston road. It seems that the Levy approach was to squeeze every possible cent out of newly aquired businesses ( sometimes including pension funds) before selling them off again. CCM survives in name only as the original plant was torn down sometime in the 1980s. Lots of information available on line if you look!
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