WESTINGHOUSE / PITTSBURGH / USA (1901 - 1909 )
After experimenting with electric vehicles, WESTINGHOUSE launched a 4-cylinder vehicle around 1905, which was marketed in the United States as well as in France.
A license was also granted to the Hungarian manufacturer MARTA. No original emblem has been found to date. However, there is an article about MARTA in a Hungarian magazine that includes a drawing of the WESTINGHOUSE emblem we’ve been looking for. With the help of AI, I was therefore able to reconstruct the emblem. Here is the (convincing) result:
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| 1909 WESTINGHOUSE radiator emblem |
And here's my template:
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| Hungarian magazin from the 1970s |
As for the colors, there was a second reference. In the 1920s, a Swedish boy named Gustav Moeller had a wonderful hobby. He drew the emblems of the vehicles waiting for the ferry at the port of Helsingborg. There was even a WESTINGHOUSE vehicle among them. So I was also able to determine the colors from Gustav’s drawing.
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| Painting by Gustav Moeller in the 1920s |
The licensee, the Hungarian brand MARTA, subsequently released its own logo featuring the head of an attractive woman. For more information about MARTA please click here!
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