Essex

Essex was an American automobile marque built first by the Essex Motor Company, a wholly owned entity of Hudson, from 1918 and then by Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit from 1922 until 1933. It was priced as a small, affordable family car and is generally credited with making the enclosed passenger car cheap enough for ordinary buyers, its closed coach of 1922 costing little more than an open tourer. More than 1.13 million Essex cars were sold, the make ranked third in United States sales in 1929, and it was exported or assembled from kits in Canada, Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Declining sales led Hudson to replace it with the Essex-Terraplane in 1932 and the Terraplane in 1934.