High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The McLaughlin automobile company began life in 1876 as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, a blacksmith`s shop in the village of Enniskillen, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north east of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The company began making horse-drawn carriages in the mid 19th Century, moving to Oshawa, Ontario in 1876. The most successful of their time, producing more than 25,000 carriages a year, the company incorporated as the "McLaughlin Carriage Company, Ltd." in 1901. By 1915, the company bragged it was making one carriage every ten minutes. In 1910 Director of General Motors Company In 1915 Director and Tresurer Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada