Kaiser Motors

Kaiser Motors
Industry	Automobiles
Predecessor	Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Founded	July 14, 1945
Founder	Henry J. Kaiser
Defunct	August 13, 1953
Fate	Merged with Willys-Overland Motors and re-named it Willys Motors; renamed it again as Kaiser Jeep Corporation
Successor	Kaiser Jeep
Headquarters	Willow Run, Michigan, United States
Key people	Henry J. Kaiser, Edgar Kaiser
Production output	1945–1953
Owner	Henry J. Kaiser

Kaiser Motors (formerly Kaiser-Frazer) Corporation made automobiles at Willow Run, Michigan, United States, from 1945 until 1953. In 1953, Kaiser merged with Willys-Overland to form Willys Motors Incorporated, moving its production operations to the Willys plant at Toledo, Ohio, where the company continued to build automobiles under the Kaiser marque including the Kaiser Darrin until 1955. Their South American operations continued to build passenger cars well up into the 1960s. The company changed its name to Kaiser Jeep Corporation in 1963.