NW

NW was the car marque of the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft in Nesselsdorf (Kopřivnice), which built its first automobile in 1897. The firm traced its history to 1850, when Ignaz Schustala (1822-1891) founded a carriage works in Kopřivnice. Hugo Fischer von Roslerstamm (1856-1917) became technical director in 1890 and led the company after Schustala's death. The firm later became known as Tatra. In 1897 the company's technicians examined a Benz car with…