The Whelen Engineering Company is an American corporation that designs and manufactures audio and visual warning equipment for automotive, aviation, and mass notification industries worldwide. Founded in a

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garage in 1952, Whelen has become a provider of warning lights, white illumination lighting, sirens, and controllers. Whelen products are designed, manufactured, and assembled in two facilities in

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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: #The Automotive Division — provides lightbars, dashlights, strobe kits, siren boxes, and other public warning systems to be mounted on or within vehicles, rotating sirens, and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability. #The Industrial Division — provides public alert hardware for clientele in an industrial plant forum. #The Aviation Division — provides warning equipment specifically for use on aircraft or airport directional lighting. #The Mass Notification Products Division — provides hardware for mass notification, such as omnidirectional sirens ( electronic civil defense sirens), rotating sirens, and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability.

Motorsports

Whelen Motorsports is partnered with

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and is the "Officially Licensed Warning Lights of NASCAR." It also sponsors and promotes four NASCAR regional touring series: the

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series The NASCAR Whelen Euro Series (formerly known as Racecar Euro Series and Euro-Racecar NASCAR Touring Series) is an official NASCAR stock-car racing series based in Europe. It is one of NASCAR's three international-sanctioned series, alongside the ...

, the

Whelen All-American Series The NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series (formerly the Whelen All-American Series, Winston Racing Series and the Dodge Weekly Series) is a points championship for NASCAR sanctioned local short track motor racing around the United States and ...

, the

NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour (NWMT) (previously the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour and NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series from 1985 until 2005) is a modified stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR in the Modified Division. The Mod ...

and the

NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour (WSMT) was a stock car racing series owned by NASCAR and operated in the Southeastern United States as part of its Modified Division. The series began in 1989 as the Southern Modified Auto Racing Teams (S. ...

. In the Whelen All-American Series, more than 10,000 drivers compete for championship at 55 NASCAR-sanctioned short tracks within the

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.Whelen Motorsports
/ref> Whelen the Modified and All-American tours . Whelen is also an official sponsor of Goulian Aerosports and airshow pilot Michael Goulian.

Whelen Hornet

The Whelen Hornet is an electronic

civil defense siren A civil defense siren, also known as an air-raid siren or tornado siren, is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. It is sometimes sounded again to indicate the danger has pas ...

. It was introduced in 1995. It contains a single 400-watt

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. The siren's appearance is best described as a small dish on a square rotator platform, with the single driver located at the center of the horn. It is the smallest outdoor siren made by Whelen. The siren can sound six signals, just like most other sirens produced by Whelen;Whelen Hornet
/ref> however, it is not voice-capable like the WPS-2900 and WPS-4000 series sirens. Whelen also produced the WPS-3000.

References

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