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Studebaker was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the firm was originally a coachbuilder, manufacturing wagons, buggies, carriages and harnesses.
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| People pose with their Studebaker cars |
Studebaker entered the automotive business in 1902 with electric vehicles and in 1904 with gasoline vehicles, all sold under the name “Studebaker Automobile Company”. Until 1911, its automotive division operated in partnership with the Garford Company of Elyria, Ohio, and after 1909 with the E-M-F Company and with the Flanders Automobile Company. The first gasoline automobiles to be fully manufactured by Studebaker were marketed in August 1912. Over the next 50 years, the company established a reputation for quality, durability and reliability.
After an unsuccessful 1954 merger with Packard (the Studebaker-Packard Corporation) failed to solve chronic postwar cashflow problems, the ‘Studebaker Corporation’ name was restored in 1962, but the South Bend plant ceased automobile production on December 20, 1963, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assembly line on Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 1966.
Studebaker continued as an independent manufacturer before merging with Wagner Electric in May 1967 and then Worthington Corporation in November 1967. These vintage photos from
Vintage Cars & People captured people posing with their Studebaker cars.
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| Two fashionable ladies posing with a 1923 Studebaker Light Six on a gravel road in the countryside. The car is registered in the state of Virginia with 1923 licence plates, July 4, 1923 |
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| A company of six posing with a 1926 Studebaker Phaeton on a beach in wintertime, December 9, 1927 |
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| Four members of a German middle-class family posing with a 1928 Studebaker Erskine Six in the countryside. The car is registered in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, circa 1928 |
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| Three members of a German middle-class family posing with a 1928 Erskine by Studebaker on a gravel road in the countryside, July 14, 1929 |
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| Three members of a German middle-class family posing with a 1929 Erskine by Studebaker on a gravel road in the countryside, July 14, 1929 |
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