Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company

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Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company
legal form Company
founding 1903
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA
Branch Automobiles

Four Wheel Drive Wagon Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

H. Theodore Hanson, Charles B. Perry, and Lyman G. Wheeler were businessmen from Milwaukee , Wisconsin . They founded their company in the same city in 1903. They bought the Cotta Automobile Company's patents in November 1903 . In 1904 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Four Wheel Drive . At the beginning of 1906 an expansion of the plant was announced. At the end of 1906, production came to a standstill. Bankruptcy followed in early 1907 .

There was no connection with the Four Wheel Drive Automobile Company .

vehicles

Passenger cars , delivery vans and trucks were on offer , with a focus on commercial vehicles .

The cars had a four-cylinder engine from the Rutenber Motor Company with 40 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 335 cm . The vehicles were bodied as open touring cars .

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. 603 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 585 (English).

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. 603 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 585 (English).