much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . july 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message whelen engineering company inc. industry public safety founder george w. whelen headquarters chester connecticut u.s. number of locations chester ct and charlestown nh area served international divisions automotive aviation outdoor public warning industrial subsidiaries whelen motorsports website www.whelen.com this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message the whelen engineering company inc is an american corporation that designs and manufactures audio and visual warning equipment for automotive aviation and mass notification industries worldwide . founded 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 chester connecticut and charlestown new hampshire . 1 contents 1 divisions 2 motorsports 3 whelen hornet 4 references divisions edit 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 2 rotating sirens and student alert systems with voice broadcast capability . 3 the industrial division provides public alert hardware for clientele in an industrial plant forum . 4 the aviation division provides warning equipment specifically for use on aircraft or airport directional lighting . 5 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 edit whelen motorsports is partnered with nascar 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 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 . whelen hornet edit the whelen hornet is an electronic civil defense siren . it was introduced in 1995 . it contains a single 400 watt speaker . 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 9 however it is not voice capable like the wps 2900 and wps 4000 series sirens . references edit homepage whelen engineering automotive division whelen engineering company inc. mass notification home page whelen engineering company inc. industrial products whelen engineering aviation division whelen engineering company inc. mass notification home page affiliate summit joins sponsor group of justin philpott racing for 2007 nascar whelen all american series affiliate summit blog whelen motorsports whelen hornet retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title whelen engineering company & oldid 736177046 categories auto parts suppliers of the united stateslaw enforcement equipmentchester connecticutsirenshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from july 2010all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles lacking reliable references from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 august 2016 at 18 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view