Murray Corporation of America run from 1600 Clay Street, Detroit Michigan was, from 1925 until 1939, a major supplier of complete automobile bodies to the Ford Motor Company.
Washing machines, plumbing and bathroom fixtures, cutting tools and truck engine parts followed.
By the 1960s a Fortune 500 company Murray later passed through the ownership of Dyson Kissner-Moran to Household International which is now a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc.
[2] A short sharp recession forced a financial reorganisation and as of January 1927 the business was moved into the ownership of Murray Corporation of America.
[1] Raymond H Dietrich Clarence W. Avery, recruited from Ford in 1927 and driving force of Murray for 20 years, is credited with introducing his industry to time-study and the moving assembly line.