 Hare looked to expand, increasing Mercer's models and production, and also purchasing the Locomobile & Crane-Simplex marques.Within a few years, the cost of these acquisitions and the economic recession took a financial toll on Hare's Motors.Locomobile was liquidated and purchased by Durant Motors in 1922, and Mercer produced its last vehicles in 1925, after some 5,000 had been built.