

A 1907 model of the White Steamer was an early part of the first White House fleet of automobiles. In 1905 the automobile company was separated from the parent White Sewing Machine Company. The engines were used in trucks named Stanhopes. Rollin was awarded a gold medal for his steam engines at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Success was enhanced when Rollin won a 10-mile race in 1901 in a Steamer at Detroit’s Fairgrounds, and again in 1902, when he drove a specially designed car at a Cleveland track. The name given to the automobile was the White Steamer, and the cars were successful from the start.

Walter was the company’s president, Windsor was responsible for marketing and Rollin headed manufacturing and design.
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This led to the formation of the White Motor Company as a division of the White Sewing Machine Company. However, he persuaded his father to let him set up a workshop in one of the White Sewing Machine Company buildings so that he could manufacture an automobile of his own design.īy the end of 1900, 50 automobiles had been built and were tested before being put up for sale in April 1901. He offered his design to Locomobile and other companies with no success.
THE WHITE CONSOLIDATED CO OF CHICAGO 1930 GENERATOR
His son Rollin worked to improve the design of the boiler he developed a water tube steam generator with two significant features and patented his steam generator in 1900. Just before the beginning of the 20th century, Thomas White purchased a Locomobile steam-powered automobile however, the car’s boiler was unreliable. The company did well, and each of White’s three sons (Walter, Rollin and Windsor) joined the company that bore their name. In 1866, the company was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. White and others in Templeton, Massachusetts. The White Sewing Machine Company was started in 1858 by Thomas H. Jim Allen/FreightWaves Iowa 80 Trucking Museum (Photo: National Park Service)ġ924 white motor company wrecker. The Buying Plan is a key transparency initiative that the City of Chicago uses to forecast the goods and services that it expects to procure, allowing businesses and the vendor community to prepare for upcoming solicitations.A White Motor Company tanker truck.

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