Michigan Stamping Company

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The Michigan Stamping Company , based in Chesterfield , Michigan , was the beginning of the 20th century, a major supplier of US - automotive industry . Starting in 1907, the company manufactured a large part of the chassis for the Ford Model T as one of two suppliers . These chassis have the letters MSB in a circle. (The other, Parish & Bingham , marked his frame with P & B ). Murray Corporation of America's founder , John William Murray , was Michigan Stamping's plant manager at the time.

In 1916, the company moved to new facilities on Mack Avenue in Detroit , near the Ford factory .

The company was later taken over by the Briggs Manufacturing Company . When this was sold by the founder's heirs to the Chrysler Corporation in the early 1950s , the former facilities of Michigan Stamping Co. served as a body shop.

In 1979 they were closed.