Murray Corporation of Americarun from1600 Clay Street,DetroitMichigan was, from 1925 until 1939, a major supplier of complete automobile bodies to the Ford Motor Company. Non-automotive stamped steel products were added during theGreat Depressionof the 1930s. Production switched to wings for wartime aircraft and other aircraft components. Postwar they moved further into stainless steel products including cabinets and kitchen sinks. Washing machines, plumbing and bathroom fixtures, cutting tools and truck engine parts followed. Their last automotive products plant was sold in 1955.
By the 1960s aFortune 500company Murray later passed through the ownership ofDyson Kissner-MorantoHousehold Internationalwhich is now a subsidiary ofHSBC Holdings plc.
Automotive bodies industry consolidation
editJ W Murray Mfg Co had been founded in 1913 by John William Murray and his son to make stamped sheet metal part for automobiles. Their premises were inDetroitand located near what is now the Cadillac Hamtramck assembly plant. J W Murray established a second plant atEcorse,Michigan.[1]
Murray Body Corporation was created in 1924 by mergingC R Wilson Body CoofMilwaukee JunctionDetroit with threeHamtramckbusinesses, Murray Manufacturing, Towson and Widman. Both Wilson and Murray were long standing suppliers to Ford. Combined the businesses could build 60,000 to 70,000 bodies a year. Towson Body Co and J C Widman & Co. (Towson include the Anderson Electric Car Co) were Murray's neighbours in Hamtramck.[1]
On the merger Murray Body Corporation became, afterFisherandBriggs,the third largest body company in the United States.[2]
A short sharp recession forced a financial reorganisation and as of January 1927 the business was moved into the ownership ofMurray Corporation of America.[1]
Custom bodywork
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Clarence Avery
editClarence W. Avery,recruited from Ford in 1927 and driving force of Murray for 20 years, is credited with introducing his industry to time-study and the moving assembly line. Avery was also well known for dealing effectively with autoworkers grievances working in withUAW.[1]
References
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- ^James M. Rubenstein.The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis.Routledhge, London and New York, 1992ISBN041505544X
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