Whitney Motor Wagon Company

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Whitney Motor Wagon Company
legal form Company
founding 1897
resolution 1900
Seat Boston , Massachusetts , USA
management George Eli Whitney
Branch Automobiles

1896 Whitney steam car at the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run

Whitney Motor Wagon Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George Eli Whitney experimented with steam cars from 1883 . In October 1896 the first vehicle was ready. In 1897 he founded the company in Boston , Massachusetts to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Whitney . Seven vehicles had been completed by the summer of 1898. Production ended in 1900.

The Stanley Manufacturing Company was a licensee . Other manufacturers who violated Whitney's patents have been sued. These included Grout Automobile Company , Milwaukee Automobile Company , Prescott Automobile Manufacturing Company, and Stanley Motor Carriage Company .

Whitney then worked for Locomobile , which also manufactured steam cars.

Other American manufacturers of passenger cars of this brand were Whitney Machine Company and Whitney Automobile Company .

vehicles

Only steam cars were on offer. The steam engines contributed in many cases 4-6 hp . Some had two cylinders .

A surviving vehicle with the British registration number PM 8970 , dated 1896, is occasionally used in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run . The vehicle was auctioned on September 13, 2003 for £ 42,200 .

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. 1541-1542 (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. 1739-1740 (English).

Web links

Commons : Whitney Motor Wagon Company  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 1541-1542 (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. 1739-1740 (English).
  3. ^ Auction 2003 (accessed April 27, 2019)