Murray Corporation of America

Murray Corporation of America run from

great depression

of 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 a

HSBC Holdings plc

.

Automotive bodies industry consolidation

J 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 in

Ecorse, Michigan.^[1]

Murray Body Corporation was created in 1924 by merging

Hamtramck businesses, 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, after Fisher and Briggs, 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 of Murray Corporation of America.^[1]