Whelen Engineering Company

The Whelen Engineering Company, Inc is an American corporation that designs and manufactures high quality audio and visual warning equipment for automotive, aviation, and mass notification industries worldwide. Founded in 1952, Whelen has become a leading provider of innovative warning lights, white illumination lighting, sirens, and controllers. With two state-of-the-art facilities in Chester, Connecticut and Charlestown, New Hampshire, Whelen products are proudly designed, manufactured, and assembled in the U.S.A.^[1]

Divisions

The Whelen Company is divided into four divisions and has a subsidiary called Whelen Motorsports.

The four divisions of the company are as follows:

1. The Automotive Division - provides lightbars, dashlights, strobe kits, siren boxes, and other public warning systems to be mounted on or within vehicles,^[2] rotating sirens, and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability.^[3]
2. The Industrial Division - provides public alert hardware for clientele in an industrial plant forum.^[4]
3. The Aviation Division - provides warning equipment specifically for use on aircraft or airport directional lighting.^[5]
4. The Mass Notification Products Division - provides hardware for mass notification such as omnidirectional sirens ("air-raid" sirens), rotating sirens, and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability.^[6]

Motorsports

Whelen Motorsports is partnered with NASCAR and is the "Officially Licensed Warning Lights of NASCAR." It also sponsors and promotes three NASCAR regional touring series: the Whelen All-American Series, the Whelen Modified Tour and the Whelen Southern Modified Tour.^[7] In the Whelen All-American Series, more than 10,000 drivers compete for championship at 55 NASCAR-sanctioned short tracks within the United States and Canada.^[8] Whelen will sponsor the Modified and All-American tours through 2019.

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