Black Crow (automobile)

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Crow Motor Car Company
TypeAutomobile Manufacturing
Industry Automotive
Founded1909
Defunct1911
Headquarters Elkhart, Indiana, United States
Postcard of right-hand drive Black Crow automobile, ca. 1910 by a Liberty Pennsylvania, photographer. Caption on reverse reads: "Walter Stroble at wheel in Liberty PA ca. 1910" Black Crow auto (cropped).jpg
Postcard of right-hand drive Black Crow automobile, ca. 1910 by a Liberty Pennsylvania, photographer. Caption on reverse reads: "Walter Stroble at wheel in Liberty PA ca. 1910"

Black Crow automobiles were manufactured from 1909 until 1911 by the Crow Motor Car Company in Elkhart, Indiana, and sold by the Black Motor Company. [1]

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