Whelen Engineering Company

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Whelen Engineering Company, Inc.
Type
Founded
Headquarters	Chester, Connecticut, United States
Area served	International
Industry	Public Safety
Divisions	Automotive, Aviation, Outdoor Public Warning, Industrial
Subsidiaries	Whelen Motorsports
Website	www.whelen.com

The Whelen Engineering Company, Inc is an American corporation based out of Chester, Connecticut that designs, develops, and markets audio and visual signaling devices primarily for law enforcement, security, and military clients.^[1]

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The Whelen Company is divided into fours divisions and has a subsidiary called Whelen Motorsports. Whelen Motorsports is partnered with NASCAR and is the "Officially Licensed Warning Lights of NASCAR. It also sponsors and promotes the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.^[2] 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.^[3]

The four divisions of the company are as follows:

1. The Automotive Division- provide lightbars, dashlights, strobe kits, siren boxes, and other public warning systems to be mounted on or within vehicles.^[4]
2. The Aviation Division- provides warning equipment specifically for use on aircraft or airport directional lighting.^[5]
3. 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]
4. The Industrial Division- provides public alert hardware for clientele in an industrial plant forum.^[7]

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