K-R-I-T Motor Car Company

Krit Motor Car Company's 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, Adolf Hitler, or antisemitism).^[2]

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.

In 1911 the KRIT Motor Company was purchased by Walter S Russel of the Russel Wheel and Foundry Company.^[3]

The cars were conventional 4-cylinder models and many were exported to Europe and Australia. In 1913 a six-cylinder car was introduced and Krit tried to increase sales by engineering cars for other marques. The outbreak of World War I seriously damaged the company and it failed in 1915. A few cars were subsequently assembled from remaining parts.^[2]

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  1912 KRIT motor car Advertisement
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  1917 KRIT Motor Car Co. - Patterns available
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  1911 Krit Advertising
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  Logo prominently showing the swastika emblem
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  swastika on car in National Automobile Museum

• 1913 K-R-I-T "KT" 5-Passenger Touring at the National Automobile Museum.