Photograph
World War I Trucks
| Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in one photograph two early Wisconsin automobile manufacturers. The Kissel Kar Company manufactured automobiles from 1906 until the Depression. The Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville was founded by inventors Otto Zachow and William A Besserdich following their 1909 invention of the first four-wheel drive automobile. During World War I they manufactured over 20,000 trucks for the Allies. Today the company manufactures fire engines. |
| Image ID: | 40738 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1918 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Hartford |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | World War I production photographs, 1918-1919 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 518 |
| Original Dimensions: | 9.5x7.5 inches |
| Factories |
| Automobile industry and trade |
| War work |
| Trucks |
| World War, 1914-1918 |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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