Engineering:Monarch (marque)

Monarch
1948 Monarch sedan
Overview
Manufacturer	Ford Motor Company of Canada
Production	1946–57, 1958–61
Body and chassis
Body style	2-door sedan 4-door sedan 2-door station wagon 4-door station wagon
Layout	FR layout
Related	Mercury

Monarch was an automobile marque produced by Ford Canada from 1946 through 1957 and from 1959 to 1961. The Monarch was marketed as its own brand of car rather than as a Ford, with its own model names which included Richelieu, Lucerne and Sceptre.

The cars

Monarchs were introduced on 23 March 1946 as contemporary Mercury models with Canadian market-specific trim, unique grilles, taillights and other trim to marginally differentiate them from their Mercury relatives. Monarch model names included Richelieu, Lucerne and Sceptre; these were variations of the Mercury Eight (later the Monterey), Montclair and Park Lane models, respectively. The Monarch line provided Canadian Ford dealerships a product to sell in the medium-price field, similar to Ford of Canada offering the Meteor line of lower-price vehicles which were actually Ford models with Mercury-like trim and model names. This was typical practice in the Canadian market, where smaller towns might have only a single dealer who was expected to offer a full range of products in various price classes.

The Monarch line of vehicles was dropped for 1958 when the Edsel was introduced, but the poor acceptance of the Edsel led Ford to reintroduce Monarch for 1959. With a drop in medium-priced vehicle sales in the early 1960s, and the introduction of the similarly priced Ford Galaxie, the Monarch brand was dropped again after the 1961 model year, with approximately 95,450 cars built in 15 years.

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  Modified 1947 Monarch Coupe

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  1949 Monarch Sport Sedan

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  1953 Monarch Two-Door Sedan (with non-standard wheels)

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  1954 Monarch Lucerne Convertible

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  1956 Monarch Richelieu

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  1957 Monarch Turnpike Cruiser

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  1959 Monarch Lucerne

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  1960 Monarch Lucerne

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  1961 Monarch