WESTCOTT / USA

WESTCOTT / RICHMOND / USA ( 1909 - 1925 )

The WESTCOTT Motor Car Company started car production at Richmond / Indiana in 1909. They remained in the car business until 1925. They moved to Springfield / Ohio in 1916.
They offered an assembled car using  6-cylinder engines made by Continental.
The peak production  year was 1921 with 1,710 cars built.
In 16 years they sold about 15,000 cars.

One of the first enameled WESTCOTT emblems is this one from 1912–1913:

Size	6.4 cm
Year	1912- 1913
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Here is the next enameled radiator emblem I was able to identify. It was filed in 1917 and used from 1913 to 1916

Size	5.7 cm
Year	1913- 1916
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The design of this WESTCOTT emblem was patented in 1917. Note that the letter W is depicted in black:

Could it be that VOLKSWAGEN copied the Westcott emblem?

No, VOLKSWAGEN didn't copy it; I created this emblem myself  because of the similarity!

 

Here, at last, is the well-known, original WESTCOTT emblem. From 1917 to 1925 they  had a octagonal emblem  showing the letters V and W like Volkswagen many years later. I have no idea why there is a V as the first name of the founder Mr. Westcott was Burton.  May be it is just a special W.

Size	5.4 cm x 5.4 cm
Year	1920 - 1925
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1922 advertisement showing the emblem

In the nineteensixties Harry Pulfer  reproduced this emblem. It became a bad repro because the letters of the name are originally filled up with black enamel, but here you see orange letters.

left: original                                                       right: repro

backside of original and repro

For more  emblems see older posts or  top right (list of car makers).

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