K-R-I-T Motor Car Company

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

K-R-I-T Motor Car Company
TypeAutomobile Manufacturing
IndustryAutomotive
GenreTouring cars, roadsters[1]
Founded1909
Defunct1916
Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
,
United States
Area served
United States
ProductsVehicles
Automotive parts

History
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 associated with Nazism, Nazi Germany, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, or antisemitism). 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]

  • 1912 KRIT motor car Advertisement
  • 1917 KRIT Motor Car Co. - Patterns available

Surviving examples

See also
  • List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers

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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