FWD

The company that became known as F.W.D. began as the Badger Four Wheel Drive Automobile Co., founded in Clintonville, Wisconsin, and operating under that name from 1909 to 1911 before being reorganized as the Four Wheel Drive Automobile Co. from 1911 to 1912. The firm was founded by two machinists, Otto Zachow and his brother-in-law William A. Besserdich, who devised a double-Y universal joint enclosed in a ball-and-socket housing. This…