WESTINGHOUSE

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (1901/1905-1907)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Societe Anonyme Westinghouse
Le Havre, France

This is a Westinghouse radiator script (1907)   nc

The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company was well known for the manufacture of electrical products and equipment for both domestic and heavy industrial usage. In 1901, Westinghouse acquired the patents of the Hub Motors Company for the manufacture of small electric passenger carriages and is believed to have manufactured some of these vehicles, although the patents had been acquired for the production of electric buses.

Westinghouse entered the automotive market again in 1905, with a luxurious 40 hp four-cylinder water-cooled gasoline passenger car. The Westinghouse automobile was designed by Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but was manufactured in France at the Societe Anonyme Westinghouse factory in Le Havre. 

Westinghouse cars are known to have taken part in the Paris Salon chains trials in 1906 and both completed the competition with full marks.

The Westinghouse was an expensive, high quality automobile and was sold in Europe and in America, either as a chassis for coachwork to be built in America or as a complete unit with coachwork built in France.

Westinghouse production is believed to have ceased in late 1907, when Westinghouse entered a brief receivership.

Emblem

There are several original period photos of Westinghouse automobiles but none that I can find clearly show the radiator. 

However, a surviving 1907 Westinghouse Model 40 demi-limousine in the Nethercutt Collection at Sylmar, California displays the Westinghouse name on a brass script mounted on the radiator core, see photos shown above at the top of this post and later below: 

Westinghouse Model 40 at the Nethercutt Collection (1907)  ms

Westinghouse radiator script (1907)   ms

There is also a small shield shaped brass emblem in the top of the radiator but this is the emblem of the maker of the radiator, the El Arco Radiator Company of New York, so the radiator, at least, was built in America, see photo below:

Radiator maker's emblem (1907)   ms

The Westinghouse Model 40 in the Nethercutt Collection has coachwork built by Demarest & Company in France with various accessories made by L. Dubrulle, as seen on the following nameplate:

Dubrulle accessories nameplate (1907)   ms

The Westinghouse name is also displayed on the hubcaps, see below:

This is a Westinghouse hubcap (1907)   ms