The Crawford Automobile Company was an American

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manufacturing company based in

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which produced cars from 1905 to 1923. After the Crawford Automobile Company was purchased by the M. P. Moller Pipe Organ Co., they produced a sporting version of the Crawford called the Dagmar (in production until 1927). Crawfords were chain-driven until 1907, and the 1911–1914 models featured

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s. Later cars featured brass trim, disc-covered wooden

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s, and

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six-cylinder engines.

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