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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #50 on: July 10, 2009, 03:30:42 PM »
...indeed!

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #51 on: July 10, 2009, 03:38:58 PM »
hmm... Radios?

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #52 on: July 10, 2009, 03:42:58 PM »
...not an electric product of that kind....

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #53 on: July 10, 2009, 03:44:20 PM »
I've asked before and you answered: "Indeed!"   :eyebrow:
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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #54 on: July 10, 2009, 03:47:09 PM »
You didn't notic the enphasis... it was an INDEED!!
It's the most electrical product available....

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #55 on: July 10, 2009, 03:51:25 PM »
oh sorry, my fault.. I've read "...not an electric product of any kind....!
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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #56 on: July 10, 2009, 04:02:44 PM »
electric cables?  :scratch:

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #57 on: July 10, 2009, 04:12:40 PM »
I hope I'm not misleading you...this big company, still alive in a different form, is not providing objects to the customers....

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #58 on: July 10, 2009, 04:15:06 PM »
Okay, the penny has dropped... It's an electricity producer!

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #59 on: July 10, 2009, 04:20:37 PM »
 :thumbsup:

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #60 on: July 10, 2009, 04:22:34 PM »
Westinghouse Electric?

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #61 on: July 10, 2009, 04:33:58 PM »
Not that...

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2009, 07:08:03 PM »
may I ask you whether the source to reveal the mystery is to find on the internet?

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #63 on: July 10, 2009, 07:13:38 PM »
Yes, not the picture, but the story is available in at least 2 different sites.

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #64 on: July 11, 2009, 05:35:17 AM »
I'm afraid I'm at my wit's end.  :-[

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #65 on: July 11, 2009, 06:07:32 AM »
In those days, many companies like that had a project like this...

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #66 on: July 11, 2009, 06:19:16 AM »
Exactly that's my problem..

another try: Washington Water Power Company? At least I found it linked to an obscure electric Crosley project in 1957...

You've mentioned that the company had been supposably dissapeared in 1993. Did it went bust or was it a takeover by another company?
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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #67 on: July 11, 2009, 07:01:00 AM »
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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #68 on: July 11, 2009, 07:04:58 AM »
That's correct!
Even if all the sources talks about a Crosley Wagon...Here's the car, well done!

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Re: PJ - 163
« Reply #69 on: July 11, 2009, 07:11:58 AM »
Alright! Found it in the very same source about the Westinghouse-Electric-Crosley-project, but some passages below..

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Re: Solved -PJ163- WWP Washington Water Power Electric Car N.1
« Reply #70 on: January 25, 2017, 08:27:53 AM »
Washington Water Power, founded in 1889, was renamed Avista in 1999.  The company still exists, providing electricity in parts of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.