K-R-I-T Motor Car Company

K-R-I-T Motor Car Company
Automobile Manufacturing
Industry Automotive
Genre Touring cars, roadsters[1]
Founded 1909
Defunct 1916
Headquarters Detroit, Michigan, United States
Area served
 United States
Products Vehicles
Automotive parts

K-R-I-T (or simply "Krit") was a small automobile manufacturing company (1909–1916) based in Detroit, Michigan.

History

7.75x9.25 black and white photograph of a painting of the Krit Motor Car Company factory located at 1608 East Grand Boulevard
Logo prominently showing the swastika emblem
1911 KRIT motor car Advertisement

Its name probably originated from Kenneth Crittenden, who provided financial backing and helped design the cars. The emblem of the cars was a swastika (a symbol that was not yet sullied by Nazism at the time). Krit occupied two different sites during its history: the first one it took over from the Blomstrom car, and in 1911 moved to the works that had been used by R. M. Owen & Company who had moved to become Owen Magnetic. The cars were conventional 4-cylinder models and many were exported to Europe and Australia. The outbreak of World War I seriously damaged the company and it failed in 1915. A few cars were subsequently assembled from remaining parts.

In 1911 the KRIT Motor Company was purchased by Walter S Russel of the Russel Wheel and Foundry Company.[2]

Surviving examples

See also

References

  1. ↑ Imperial Automobile Company. Pawtucket, Rhode Island: The Automobile Journal Publishing Co. 1912.
  2. ↑ http://blogs.detroitnews.com/history/2000/01/15/once-teeming-with-auto-plants-detroit-now-home-to-only-a-few-nameplates/


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