Sorry folks,
The Crosley and Henry's J were latecomers. Before WWII
there was a compact car made in Butler PA (if I recall correctly) called
the American Bantam. They still show up in Hemmings on occassion. My
slipping OF memory wants to somehow think that Bantam was a
branch/division/piece of Austin.
Bud Krueger, OF
52TD
Spook37211@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 97-08-19 23:27:49 EDT, CJOINER@toltec.astate.edu
> (CHARLES
> JOINER) writes:
>
> <<
> The first compact cars were made by Crosley, an american who made
> two fortunes, one in radio ie the Crosley radio and the other in the
> crosley refrigerator. He lost both of them trying to produce a
> compact car. He died broke. America was not ready for a compact
> car. Another compact car was the Henry J manufactured by Kiaser.
> same problem America loved big cars.
>
>
> >>
> Quite true!!!!
>
> I'm not certain that the Henry J was a compact, though, although
> compared to
> some of the iron out there then I suppose you could call it one.....
>
> Ray
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