Maker Info
Cutting and Washington Radio Corporation
Cutting and Washington (C & W) was a radio manufacturer. It was founded in late 1915 by Fulton Cutting and Bowden Washington, who met as radio engineers while working with Leon Chaffee.at the Cruft Laboratory at Harvard. They were licensed to make Chaffee gap radio transmitters in 1915, and so went into business.
The firm was first called Cutting and Washington, Inc., and based in Cambridge, MA. It was incorporated as Cutting and Washington Inc in 1917 in New York state. In June 1919, the company relocated to 6 and 8 W. 48th St., New York City. The name was changed to Cutting and Washington Radio Corporation. The firm was reincorporated and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Independent Radio Telegraph Company.
C & W relocated from New York City to Minneapolis in 1922. Having no factory, it connected with Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company (later Honeywell) to manufacture radios. It ran broadcast station WLAG. The arrangment with Minneapolis Heat Regulator did not work well, and they changed their contractor to the Automatic Electric Company of Chicago.
In 1924, C & W went into receivership, and WLAG closed. Independent sold the company to another, and later that same year, Cutting and Washington opened Colonial Radio in New York.