
Most Murray bicycles were for the youth market, often featuring one-piece steel Ashtabula cranksets and internally brazed frames using inexpensive seamed or straight-gauge steel tubing. This occasionally brought Murray into legal conflict with competitors, as when Schwinn filed against Murray for duplicating a Schwinn knurling and machining process on its rims. manufacturers, including Schwinn and AMF. Since the 1930s, Murray had been producing bicycles that, while stylistically different, imitated designs by other U.S. It was produced only in limited numbers until 1942, when the war stopped consumer bicycle production.Īfter the war, Murray became known as a manufacturer of low-cost bicycles, and placed its own brand on some products.

However, the Mercury was an expensive bicycle, and sales were few. Styled by the industrial artist and designer, Viktor Schreckengost, the streamlined machine, with an elaborate diecast metal headpiece, was finished in black, chrome, and polished aluminum, the deluxe version of the Mercury Pacemaker line.
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In 1939, Murray introduced its Pacemaker Series Mercury bicycle at the 1939 New York World's Fair. From 1939 through 1942, Murray made the body parts for the Crosley automobile. Until 1939, Murray manufactured all of its products for branding and sale by other manufacturers, especially Sears, Roebuck & Co. Other products included pedal cars and electric fans. In the mid-1930s, the company began production of bicycles, mostly for the youth market. The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Cleveland factory was unionized by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and AFL–CIO.

Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company was founded in 1919 to make fenders, fuel tanks, and other automobile parts.
