CROSLEY

Power Crosley Jr.  first attempted to build a car called the Marathon Six in 1907. The venture failed so he went to work for Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis.  He would make several other efforts to build cars which all failed however he did find success making auto accessories and even greater success building radios and appliances. He also became a major force in broadcasting. Still he dreamed of manufacturing an economy car. In 1939 he established Crosley Motors and sold his little car through appliance dealers. Before the Second World War stopped production in 1942 he had built 5,757 cars.

After the war several problems worked against Crosley, the primary one being that gasoline was cheap enough that the major reason for buying a small car, fuel economy, wasn’t a big selling point. The Hot Shot was kind of fun but too slow. The Farm-O-Road was a lot like the little off-road vehicles such as the John Deere Gator that are popular today but in 1950 that market wasn’t there.

Crosley auto production ended in 1952 with the company having produced a total of a little less than 25,000 vehicles over its history.

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