Westinghouse Electric Motors

(Photograph courtesy of Dana Johnson)

Front cover of a Westinghouse Small Motors Catalogue, thought to be circa 1917-1918. This particular catalogue contains many pictures of equipment using a Westinghouse electric motor for its power source. Of interest to mechanical music enthusiasts, one of the pictures is of a Wurlitzer Style G Photoplayer.

(Photograph courtesy of Dana Johnson)

Incorrectly labeled in the Westinghouse catalogue as a Player Piano, the above instrument is actually a Wurlitzer Style G Photoplayer. This advertising photograph is one a few precious references suggesting that Westinghouse motors were originally used in automatic musical instruments.