TEMPLE-WESTCOTT

Bela Body Co. (1921-1922)
Framingham, Massachusetts

This is a Temple-Westcott radiator emblem (1921-1922)  alt
Size: Unknown    MM: Unknown

Very little is known about the Temple-Westcott, which was an assembled six-cylinder medium priced automobile built in small numbers in the Bela Body Company workshop in Framingham, Massachusetts. The people behind the Temple-Westcott are unknown.

From 1916, the Bela Body Company built high quality full-custom bodies for Boston auto dealers on a wide range of automobile chassis, specializing in high grade closed bodies. In 1918, the Bela Body Company was bought by shoe manufacturer, Richard H. Long.  The Bela Body Company was reorganized in 1921 as the Richard H. Long Company, which handled all auto body manufacture thereafter. However, there are no known records regarding the Temple-Westcott. 

It has been reported that total production of the Temple-Westcott was about 10 to 20 cars but this too is not confirmed.

Emblem

There are at least two versions of a Temple-Westcott radiator emblem each showing what is assumed to be a Temple-Westcott car sitting above a classical temple building. Interestingly, both emblems show the Temple-Westcott with an open body, not the closed body style that the Bela Body Company had seen as their speciality.

The multi colored enamel Temple-Westcott radiator emblem shown above at the top of this post was included in the Al Thurn emblem collection and is believed to have preceded the manufacture of a Pulfer reproduction Temple-Westcott emblem. This version of the Temple-Westcott radiator emblem is extremely rare. This emblem may be an original Temple-Westcott radiator emblem. However, this emblem was clearly not produced by one of the major emblem makers, as the design of the temple building is unsymmetrical, and, therefore, cannot be confirmed as original.

The Pulfer reproduction emblem, see example below, also has an unsymmetrical temple building but the Temple-Westcott car has a slightly different rear end and does not have the folded roof seen in the emblem shown at the top of this post. The outer border of the emblem is also in a different color.

This is a reproduction Temple-Westcott radiator emblem   chw
Size: 58mm diameter

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