White Motor Company

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White Sewing Machine Company
White Company
White Motor Company
White Trucks, White Motor Corporation Division
Volvo White Truck Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1866
resolution 1981
Seat Dublin , Virginia , USA
Branch Motor vehicles

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White from 1903
Advertisement for the White company from 1905
White Touring from 1910

The White Motor Company , previously White Sewing Machine Company and White Company and later White Trucks, Division White Motor Corporation and Volvo White Truck Corporation , was a major American manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Thomas H. White and William L. Grout founded the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland , Ohio , in 1866 . They first made sewing machines. Another source states that the company was founded in Massachusetts during the Civil War (1861–1865) and moved to Cleveland after the war.

In 1900 the production of passenger cars was added. At first they were steam cars . Commercial vehicles were added in 1900 or 1901 .

In 1906 it was renamed the White Company . In 1909 cars with gasoline engines were added and in 1910 trucks with gasoline engines. Car production ended in 1918. A total of 9122 cars with steam engines and 8927 cars with gasoline engines were built.

From 1916 or 1938 the company name was White Motor Company . In 1953 the Autocar Company was taken over and incorporated as the Autocar Division, White Motor Company.

In 1966 the company was renamed White Trucks, Division White Motor Corporation . The second location is now Dublin in Virginia . As of 1968, there was a subsidiary in Kelowna , Canada called White Truck Manufacturing .

In 1981 it was taken over by Volvo. This resulted in the name being changed to Volvo White Truck Corporation . Cleveland was no longer mentioned, but Greensboro in North Carolina was added to Dublin . The end came in 1988.

Car production figures

year Production number
1900 18th
1901 193
1902 385
1903 502
1904 710
1905 1,015
1906 1,534
1907 1,130
1908 1,024
1909 1,377
1910 2,408
1911 2,183
1912 1,839
1913 1,615
1914 1,318
1915 1,115
1916 1,128
1917 987
1918 653
total 21,134

Source: Around 500 passenger cars with gasoline engines still exist, most of which are in the USA.

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. 1536-1540 (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. 1736-1738 (English).
  • Howard Bailey Odell; John Gilmore Utz: Test of a White steam automobile using superheated steam ; Cornell University, 1902. OCLC 23776837
  • Frederick Weaver: White and Stanley steam automobiles ; 1949. OCLC 13404262
  • Rosemary Solovey Hritsko: The White Motor story ; University of Akron 1988. OCLC 20238019
  • White Motor Company: White Motor Company, 1920 ; 1920. OCLC 26414445
  • White Motor Company: A quarter century of White transportation, 1900-1925 ; 1925. OCLC 29201061

Web links

Commons : White Motor Company  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1736-1738 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Automobile Quarterly , Volume 43, Issue 3, pp. 6–16 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 187.
  4. ↑ a b c d 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. 1536-1540 (English).