Whiteside Wheel Company

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Whiteside Wheel Company
legal form Limited
founding 1902 or earlier
resolution 1917 or later
Seat Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
Branch Automobiles

Whiteside Wheel Company was an American company in the field of automobiles .

Company history

The first known mentions are two patents dated March 11, 1902 and October 27, 1902. According to the patents, the headquarters were in Grand Rapids , Michigan at the time .

In 1909 the seat was in Indianapolis , Indiana . There began the production of automobiles, designed by Marlon E. Vaughn. The brand name was Vaughn . Vehicle production ended in the same year. Vaughn later headed Vaughn . Another US manufacturer of passenger cars of the brand Vaughn was the Irving Automobile Company .

After 1917 the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

The only model was a high wheeler . The wheels were 38 inches tall. This made it suitable for the bad roads of the time. The two-cylinder engine came from the Beaver Manufacturing Company . It drove the rear axle via a friction transmission developed in-house.

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. 1494 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1494 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 293 (English).
  3. ↑ Patent of March 11, 1902 (English, accessed April 13, 2019)
  4. ^ Patent dated October 27, 1902 (English, accessed April 13, 2019)
  5. ↑ The Indianapolis News, June 30, 1917 (accessed April 13, 2019)