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Training Center (added February 2012)
Product training at Waukesha Engine dates back to the company’s president De Long, in post WWII. There was a classroom in the plant located on the east end of the ...
Waukesha Engine No. 371 (added December 2011)
(Reprinted from: The Waukesha Motor News Bulletin, dated June 12, 1936)
How many engine companies do you suppose could boast ...
The Diesel Speed Record Car (added October 2011)
It's a little-known fact that a Waukesha Diesel engine once held the World's Diesel Speed Record. This special speed record car was built by the students at the Hemphill Diesel School's...
God's Town (added October 2011)
There is nothing like the desert heat to make one appreciate the advantages of the Waukesha Railway Ice Engine. And since his recent trip to the West Coast, Mr. Melcher is certain of it...
M4 Artillery Tractor Powered by a Waukesha Motor Co Model 145 Engine (added September 2011)
This is the story of the events that led up to the moment when the photo of the M4 18T, high speed, artillery tractor was taken as it dashed through a French village during WWII. ...
Waukesha Motor Company in Flint Michigan? (added September 2011)
I ran across an interesting article in the February 1938 issue of the County Heritage, a monthly supplement to the Waukesha Freeman. According to the article...
Indian Word That Means Horsepower (added August 2011)
A visitor was on a train from New York to Chicago on his way to the Waukesha Motor Co. and started up a conversation with one of his fellow passengers. And, as is generally the case, they got around to asking each other where they were ...
A World Trade Center Survivor (added July 2008)
The World Trade Center was a complex of several buildings around a central plaza in New Your City. On any given day, some 50,000 people would work at or visit the WTC. The most notable feature of the complex was the twin towers, each with 110 stories. ...
2006 Marked a Century Milestone with Slide Show (added February 2006, updated May 2011)
Waukesha engine celebrated it’s 100th birthday in 2006. Waukesha Motor Company was established May 28, 1906, and papers were filed in the Register of Deeds office at the Waukesha County Clerks office May 29, 1906. ...
Harry L. Horning (added July 2006)
Mr. Horning was one of the most innovative leaders in the formative decades of the automotive industry. He was president of Waukesha Motor Company (now Dresser Waukesha) until his death in January, 1936. He served as president of SAE and ...
"The Waukesha" Model A (added July 2006)
In 1907, after countless hours of midnight research on customer cars left for repair or a wash job, two young engineers learned all they could about automobile engines. They would completely disassemble an engine to study it and look for ways to improve it..
The Fawick Flyer (added July 2006)
The Fawick, built in Milwaukee, WI and Sioux Falls, SD was probably the first car to have front doors. Prior to that time, some two seat cars had doors with hinges and latches for the convenience and safety of rear seat passengers, but such obstructions...