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Four Wheel Drive Doing Its Bit
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Postcard with two photographs of four wheel drive (F.W.D.) trucks, which were manufactured in Clintonville, Wisconsin. They are carrying supplies and troops at the front in World War I. Caption at top reads: "'F.W.D.' Doing its bit." Caption in center reads: "Manufactured at Clintonville, Wis." and Caption at bottom reads: "'F.W.D.' At the Front."
1918
Milbauer the Druggist
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Four Wheel Drive
1914
Slightly elevated view of the United States Military surveying four wheel drive (FWD) trucks, manufactured in Clintonvlle, carrying supply boxes. Caption reads: "FWD, Clintonville, Wisconsin."
Four Wheel Drive Auto Factory in Clintonville
1909
Architectural rendering of a four wheel drive auto factory, with a smokestack billowing smoke. The four-wheel drive propulsion was invented by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich. Walter A. Olen was...
Four Women and Truck
1918
Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and British armies during World War I. They h...
War Departmental Trial
1918
Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In addition to the four-wheel drive, the vehi...
World War I Trucks
1918
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 automobi...
World War I Trucks
1918
Camoflagued trucks being loaded on a train for shipment. The trucks, a product of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville, were manufactured at the Kissel Car Company plant in Hartford during...
