Whitney, G. E. Motor Wagon Co.

George Whitney spent several years experimenting before a company was formed to make his steam cars, and few were in fact made under the Whitney name. After the Stanley brothers had sold their patents to Locomobile and Mobile, they began making cars of Whitney pattern under the name Stanley-Whitney or McKay (from McKay Sewing Machines, a company owned by Frank E. Stanley). The original Whitney was a very high, tiller-steered buggy powered by a 2-cylinder vertical engine, and using a fully automatic boiler.^[1]

Whitney Machine Company, G. E. Whitney, 1897

G. E. Whitney Motor Wagon Company folding brochure.

Whitney Motor Wagon Company, George Eli Whitney English Patent

On April 30th, 1898, Whitney received this English patent, No. 6947.

Whitney Motor Wagon Company Steam Car, The Atlantic Auto Advertiser, July, 1962

In 1962, the Atlantic Auto Advertiser featured the Whitney Motor Wagon. Its illustrations are drawn from the Whitney brochure illustrated above.

For additional information on the Whitney Motor Wagon Company, visit the Early American Automobiles web site.

^[1]Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobile, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 206.

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G. E. Whitney Motor Wagon Company

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East Boston, MA

Boston, MA 1895-1897

Kittery, ME 1897-1898