Western Automobile Company (Washington)

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Western Automobile Company
legal form Company
founding 1915
resolution 1917
Seat Seattle , Washington , USA
Branch Automobiles

Western Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles from Washington state .

Company history

The company was founded in Seattle in September 1915 . CA Cawley, GL Grant and SW North were involved. Prototypes were made in the same year . Automobile production began in March 1916. The brand name was Waco . Production ended in 1917.

There were no connections to the Western Automobile Company from Colorado or the Western Automobile Company from Illinois .

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It had a four-cylinder engine of GB & S . It was rated at 22.5 hp , but made 37 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 284 cm . There was a choice of open touring cars and roadsters . The original price was 950 US dollars .

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. 1505 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1715 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1505 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1715 (English).