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Did Westinghouse believe that their 16" fan could not restart itself on low speed should the power be interrupted so made it so there was, effectively, no low speed on this early model? All AC Westy tanks use a centrifugal starting switch to engage the start windings. I have an early 16" tank from c.1905 with a single speed where all three speed contacts are bridged together (right, below). From the beginning AC tanks were two speeds with the switch having two contacts bridged together, usually on the top of the contacts and visible through the switch opening in the top of the base- contacts 2 and 3 are bridged, below, left but hard to see. All tanks APPEAR to have three speeds, however only DC tanks are three speeds along with one Style Nos. Tanks were made in 12" and 16" sizes, for AC or DC current, and with two or three speeds. The "tank" is also a relative affordable early fan which you should be able to find in the $100 to $300 range for AC models. Squat, sturdy, heavy, nice lines, and made of cast iron and brass, you will find that tanks pretty much all look alike but that there are a good number of small variations made during their seven years of production from 1905-1911.
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A popular and widely available early fan is the Westinghouse "tank" fan, so named most likely as they are "built like a tank" or do look as if they are so built.