Krit

The Krit Motor Car Company was started car production in 1909 and was located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Their offering for 1910 included the $800 Krit Runabout, the $826 Krit Roadster and the $850 Krit Surrey.

They offered four-cylinder cars for the whole of their lives, except for 1913 when a Krit Six was marketed for that single year. The company was in financial trouble most of the time and car production ceased in 1915.

The company used a swastika for their emblem to ensure favor of auspicious gods, years before Adolf Hitler abused the symbol.

In Sanskrit, the word swastika is a combination of "su" (meaning "good") and "asti" (meaning "to exist")

Popularly, this gets translated as "all is well." The swastika is thus understood to be a symbol of auspiciousness and good fortune, and is regularly donned on Hindu homes, businesses, printed materials, cars, temples, and ashrams.

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Its name probably originated from Kenneth Crittenden, who provided financial backing and helped design the cars. 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. The cars were conventional 4-cylinder models and many were exported to Europe and Australia. The outbreak of World War I seriously damaged the company and it failed in 1915. A few cars were subsequently assembled from remaining parts.

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