FWD Corporation

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Badger Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company
Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company
FWD Corporation
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

Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. stock dated May 6, 1919
Military vehicle from 1915
Truck from 1917
Fire engine from 1958

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

Commons : FWD Corporation  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ 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)
  3. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 16, 2017)