radios, and, these days, kitschy retro-tinged turntables. But in the late-1930s, company founder Powel Crosley Jr. set his sites on manufacturing low-cost automobiles for American consumers ...

Crosley launched WLW radio, which led to the birth of WLWT in 1948. Crosley manufactured radios, automobiles, and a variety of appliance and consumer products. Crosley also owned the Cincinnati ...

Source: Ohio History Central Although Powel Crosley’s fortune would be made with radio, his first love was the automobile. At the turn of the 20th century, a thirteen-year-old Crosley started ...