nick8086 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Who made the first Four Wheel Drive Truck?? The year is 1908... If you have one post a picture... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rp1967 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 FWD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Yes . FWD auto... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rp1967 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I read that they sold FWD trucks to the Government for ww1 , so I just guessed they were first.Good trivia question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 First four wheel drive truck is the year 1900 and it's a Jacob Lohner / Porsche design with four wheel electric motors. The truck is what we call a hybrid using a internal combustion engine driving a generator supplying electrical power to the electric motors in each wheel hub. This concept was further used later by Porsche to build his centipede wagons connecting as many as ten wagons all with a electric motor on each of the ten wagons wheels to the one truck which they are tethered together using the trucks power supply for all wagons. In 1903 Damler/Benz used mechanical Four wheel drive in all types of vehicles. Note there is a Dutch company ( Jacobus Spyker Co.) that has a four wheel drive in 1902, but it is a car, not a truck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahartley Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Clintonville, WI, home of the FWD, is only about 30 miles away from me.Jeffery (Nash) didn't get into the 4 wheel drive business till 1913.FWD built the first FWD automobile in 1909 which was nicknamed the Battleship.I worked on the two spark magneto for that car........it was by luck I found a man in Nevada who would wind a new coil for it. The company history is there >>> http://www.fourwheeldrivefoundation.com/the-museum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Clintonville, WI, home of the FWD, is only about 30 miles away from me. Jeffery (Nash) didn't get into the 4 wheel drive business till 1913. FWD built the first FWD automobile in 1909 which was nicknamed the Battleship. I worked on the two spark magneto for that car........it was by luck I found a man in Nevada who would wind a new coil for it. The company history is there >>> http://www.fourwheeldrivefoundation.com/the-museum It's not before the FWD vehicles I mentioned and it's not a truck like the author asked for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cahartley Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 ^ Fine.......FWD started building FWD TRUCKS in 1912. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Gee. And I thought it was the Kaiser Darrin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) Hey that is funny .. I had to pull the darrin out two night to look for tires for my FWD truck.. Edited June 2, 2015 by nick8086 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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