The Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company produced one steam vehicle before converting to gasoline.
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The text on this Four Wheel Drive Corporation real Photo Post Card reads: "The Famous Four Wheel Drive Auto made at Clintonville, WIS, pulled this load of 28 men, Hook and Ladder Truck and 2 hose Carts, ½ mile with ease up and down Grade."
This press photograph, dated October 10, 1967, shows W. A. Besserditch driving the first four wheel drive steam powered vehicle.
Henery Norton, a Milwaukee Journal reporter, wrote this article about the Badger Four Wheel Drive Auto Company on November 19, 1967. John A. Conde Collection.
On December 7, 1967, John Conde wrote to Henry Horton about his Milwaukee Journal article on the Badger automobiles. Conde apparently sent Horton the article below about the "1909 battleship." John A. Conde Collection.
It is not clear if John Conde wrote this article about the "1909 Battleship" made by the Badger Four Wheel Drive Auto Company. John A. Conde Collection.
John Conde's File Folder. John A. Conde Collection.
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