Keeton Motor Car (Detroit, Michigan)

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One time Pope-Toledo manager, Forest M. Keeton, formerly a partner in the Massilon, Ohio based Croxton-Keeton Motor Car Corporation, established the Keeton Motor Co. in 1911 to construct an expensive "French type" automobile when other automakers were striving to produce cheaper models. In August 1912, Keeton purchased the former Seitz Automobile and Transmission factory in Wyandotte, Michigan to build his 6 cylinder car. A year later in June 1913, the company left Wyandotte and purchased the former three building, 50,000 sq. ft. Oliver Motor Car Plant that was originally constructed for National Cutlery at Lawton and Breckenridge Streets. The company continued to produce the original Keeton together with an inexpensive Keeton designed cycle car under the name of Car Nation. The following January, both companies were absorbed by American-Voiturette which declared bankruptcy later that same year.

In 1915 the property was acquired by Detroit Metal Refining to use as a smelting plant.

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