Gray Marine Motor Company

Many fishing boats, lobsterboats, tugs and pleasure craft used Gray engines.

Rather than a ninety-degree gearbox, a curved housing connected motor to propeller.

[1] In 1921 Frank L. Klingensmith, William Blackburn (from Cadillac) and Frank F. Beall (from Packard) took over the Gray Motor Company, renaming it Gray Motor Corporation with $4 million capital, with the intent of competing with Ford.

The marine engine division continued operations for over forty years, and is most known for converting automotive engines for fishboats, cruisers and World War II landing craft, such as the Canadian Ramped cargo lighter and the famed Higgins boats.

Gray continued to make marine engines in the post-war period until its closure by Continental in about 1967.