Whitney Motor Wagon Company
Whitney Motor Wagon Company | |
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legal form | Company |
founding | 1897 |
resolution | 1900 |
Seat | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |
management | George Eli Whitney |
Branch | Automobiles |
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Auction 2003 (accessed April 27, 2019)