Waite (automobile manufacturer)

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Waite
legal form
founding 1907
resolution 1908
Seat Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
management
  • Harry Waite
  • John Waite
Branch Automobiles

Waite was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Harry Waite worked for a farm machinery company in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . In 1907 he rented a small factory in the south of Milwaukee. Together with his younger brother John, the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Waite . Production ended in 1908.

The brothers then founded the Petrel Motor Car Company together with Samuel W. Watkins of the Beaver Manufacturing Company .

vehicles

The vehicles had a four-cylinder Beaver engine . In the first year it had a 107.95 mm bore , 120.65 mm stroke and 4417 cm³ displacement . In the following year the bore was increased to 111.125 mm, resulting in a displacement of 4680 cm³. Both engines were specified with 30 hp . The specialty was the friction gear , for which Harry Waite held a patent . The only known body design was a runabout with two seats.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1506 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 1506 (English).
  2. ^ A b c Robert D. Dluhy: American Automobiles of the Brass Era. Essential Specifications of 4,000+ Gasoline Powered Passenger Cars, 1906-1915, with a Statistical and Historical Overview. McFarland & Company, Jefferson NC 2013, ISBN 978-0-7864-7136-2 , p. 126.