
The Crawford Automobile Company was an American
automobile
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manufacturing company based in
Hagerstown, Maryland
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which produced cars from 1905 to 1923. After the Crawford Automobile Company was purchased by the
M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Co., they produced a sporting version of the Crawford called the
Dagmar (in production until 1927).
Crawfords were
chain-driven until 1907, and the 1911–1914 models featured
transaxle
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s. Later cars featured brass trim, disc-covered wooden
artillery wheel
The artillery wheel was a nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century style of wagon, gun carriage, and automobile wheel. Rather than having its spokes mortised into a wooden nave (hub), it has them fitted together in a keystone fashion with m ...
s, and
Continental
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six-cylinder engines.
Overview of production figures
References
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
American companies established in 1905
1905 establishments in Maryland
American companies disestablished in 1923
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1905
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1923
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Maryland
1900s cars
1910s cars
1920s cars
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