Kraus Motor Co., Tacoma, Washington

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=90 BGCOLOR="#003366" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="008005a0dkcfqa.png"> <div> <A HREF="http://willysdealershipproject.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://willysdealershipproject.com"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     | </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Willys Dealership Project</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>             Back to: </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Washington"><U><B>Washington</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Use your browser's Back button for best results</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Kraus Motor Co.</div> <div> 1215 A Street</div> <div> Tacoma, Washington</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Tacoma Public Library Photography Archive has several references to Kraus Motors, dating from 1946 to 1957.  Direct links cannot be made to search results.  Click <A HREF="http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images/default.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images/defau"><U>here</U></A> and enter "Kraus Motors" for more details.</div> <bR> <div> Click <A HREF="http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images2/47/t4/13511.jpg" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://search.tpl.lib.wa.us/images2/47/t"><U>here</U></A> for one particularily interesting photo.  From 1946, a PTO-equipped CJ-2A is moving a large oven in a bakery.  Note "Kraus Motor Co." stenciled on the tailgate.</div> <bR> <div> The Kraus Motor Co. building is long gone, replaced by a commercial parking lot, seen between the two buildings in this view from March 2004.  For a parking lot, it sure has a nice view of Puget Sound:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="91a0e680.jpg" border=0 width="270" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The last listing for Kraus Motor Company in the Tacoma phone book was in 1967.  Here is an earlier listing from 1955:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="93320d80.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="216" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The phone books showed Kraus also carried the Kaiser line during 1954 and 1955:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="94a68d80.jpg" border=0 width="360" height="216" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>