FWD Corporation
Badger Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company FWD Corporation |
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1909 |
resolution | 2009 |
Seat | Clintonville , Wisconsin , USA |
Branch | Motor vehicles |
FWD Corporation , formerly Badger Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company and Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
Otto Zachow and William Besserdich made two prototypes in 1908 . They founded the Badger Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company in Clintonville , Wisconsin , on January 9, 1909, with financial help from WH Finney . In the same year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was initially Badger , possibly Badger FWD . In 1910 or 1911 the company name changed to Four Wheel Drive Auto Company and the brand name to FWD . At the time, Walter A. Olen was the president. Now commercial vehicles were also created . In 1912 car production ended after around twelve vehicles were manufactured. In 1958 the company name changed to FWD Corporation .
In 2009 it was taken over by the Corsta Corporation .
vehicles
Car
Zachow and Besserdich developed an all-wheel drive . The first prototype was called Z&B , although this was obviously not the brand name. A steam engine propelled the vehicle. The second prototype, nicknamed Battleship , had a gasoline engine with 45 hp . Both vehicles were not marketed.
All that is known about the vehicles from 1909 is that they were marketed as Badger or Badger FWD .
1910 there was the Badger FWD model 100 F . The vehicles were powered by a four-cylinder engine with 55/60 hp. The chassis had a wheelbase of 325 cm . The open touring car offered space for seven people.
In 1911 and 1912 there was also only one model in the range, the FWD Model A. The four-cylinder engine was now specified with 45 hp. The wheelbase was lengthened to 340 cm. There was a choice of roadsters , runabouts and seven-seater touring cars .
Trucks
The United States Army took both the First and in the Second World War on many vehicles. Diesel engines were available from 1938 . Some vehicles had a four-door forward control cab with space for eight people.
literature
- Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 94 and p. 622 (English).
- George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 600. (English)
- Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , p. 68.
Web links
- Museum of Four Wheel Drive Foundation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 94 and p. 622 (English).
- ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 600. (English)
- ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 16, 2017)