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  Studebaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Studebaker's cash position was far worse than it led Packard to believe and in 1956 the nearly bankrupt automaker brought in a management team from aircraft maker Curtiss-Wright to help get it back on its feet.
Studebaker's proving grounds were acquired by its former supplier Bendix Corporation, which later donated the grounds for use as a park to the St.
The XUV has been joined for 2006 by the Studebaker XUT, a pickup version that is similar in concept to the Chevrolet Avalanche, although it is not known if the XUT has the same type of "mid-gate" that allows the expansion of the cargo area into the passenger cabin.
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 Clement Studebaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Clement Studebaker (1831-1901) was one of the brothers who founded what eventually became the Studebaker Corporation, an early manufacturer of automobiles.
Clement continued to build the business into a company that would boast it was the largest horse-drawn vehicle manufacturer in the world.
Tippecanoe Place, Clement Studebaker's home, with four main levels totaling 40 rooms and 20 fireplaces, is the embodiment of everything great wealth in the late 1800's could suggest.
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 Tippecanoe Place History
Studebaker was in the New England states on the tour with the All-American Congress, of which he is a member, and at that time was on his way from Portland, Maine, to Worcester, Mass.
Studebaker that the fire was in the closet and she opened the door, when the flames and smoke rushed out driving her back and sweeping upward through the stairway and creeping around to the elevator which formed a passage way through which the flames rushed and licked up all before them.
Studebaker's only avenue of escape and she came down through the smoke and flames shielding her grandchild's face under her arms, and while terribly burned herself, she saved the child with only slight burns on its hand and leg.
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 From Horses to Horsepower: Studebaker Helped Move a Nation
As such, both he and Studebaker closely followed the downward course of the national economy.
Clement was born 12 March, 1831, in Pinetown, Pennsylvania.
Upon the death of Clement in 1901, J.M. assumed the presidency of the corporation.
www.sil.si.edu /ondisplay/studebaker/biographies.htm   (925 words)

  
 Irish Times Article - MarqueTime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Studebaker introduced an electric car in 1902, and the second one built was bought by electrical scientist Thomas Edison.In 1904 together with the Garford Engineering Company of Ohio, Studebaker produced its first petrol-engined car, marketed as a Studebaker-Garford.
Studebaker set course to replicate the Champion success of two decades earlier by introducing the Lark compact car, outstanding of its derivatives being the Regal Hardtop.
Studebaker died as a brand three years later when one of its nondescript Cruiser models was the last to leave its Hamilton plant in Ontario, Canada.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/motoring/2004/1110/1876932015MOT10MARQUE.html   (494 words)

  
 John Mohler Studebaker
At this time, Clement, Henry and Peter were filling wagon orders for the U.S. Army, and would continue to do so throughout the Civil War.
The Studebaker brothers were the only corporation that was successful in making the transition from horse drawn to gasoline powered vehicles.
Studebaker eased their way into the automobile market after the turn of the century, introducing an electric car in 1902.
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 CLEMENT STUDEBAKER, JR. ALBUM, 1928
Clement Studebaker had two sons, Clement, Jr., and George M. George M. Studebaker was commander of the "Studebaker Tigers" in the Spanish-American War.
Clement Studebaker, Jr., graduated from Northwestern University and joined the family firm, of which in 1901 he was treasurer and second vice president.
The Indiana Society of Chicago, of which Clement Studebaker, Jr., was president in 1928, was a group founded in 1905 centering around Hoosiers who had moved to Chicago.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/bv2708.html   (450 words)

  
 Coachbult.com - Studebaker Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Studebaker built a number of automobile bodies for a few Indiana, Illinois and Ohio-based electric car manufacturers prior to the turn of the century as well as a series of taxi-cab bodies for the New York Electric Vehicle Co. Known users of Studebaker-built bodies were the Detroit Electric, EMF, Flanders and Flanders Electric.
Studebaker continue their arrangement with Superior to supply bodies for the Studebaker professional car line which was priced much lower in 1928 and 1929.
Studebaker had acquired Pierce-Arrow in 1928 and a striking Pierce-Superior funeral coach was presented at the 1931 National Funeral Directors Convention.
www.coachbuilt.com /bui/s/studebaker/studebaker.htm   (1790 words)

  
 1965 Studebaker Corporation
The Studebaker brothers built hundreds of wagons for the North during the Civil War and by the time the United States was 100 years old, the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company was the largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles in the world.
Studebakers marketed during the late 'teens and early twenties used names like Big Six, Special Six, Light Six and Standard Six, but for the 1927 model year, these "generic" names were discontinued and the President, Commander and Dictator model names were introduced.
The Studebaker Corporation (the Packard name was officially dropped from the corporate title in 1962) had acquired numerous subsidiaries, such as STP, Gravely, Clarke and Onan, so although it did not build cars after March 1966, the company carried on.
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 sn_timestops
When the Studebaker Starlight Coupe was unveiled in 1947, its wraparound rear window made it nearly impossible to tell which end of the car was the front.
It began in 1852, when Henry and Clement Studebaker began building farm wagons, including the famed Conestoga, helping to pioneer the West.
Studebaker survived in the petroleum era until 1966.
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 CanadianDriver: Motoring Memories - Studebaker Hawks
Although Studebaker stopped building cars in 1966 (they were last produced in Hamilton, Ontario), the enterprise that grew from a wagon-building company formed in 1852 by Henry and Clement Studebaker in South Bend, Indiana, has turned out some exciting models over the years.
Studebaker chose to try wringing a few more years out of it, and engaged the services of a well known Milwaukee designer by the name of Brooks Stevens.
By 1963 it was clear that Studebaker was in financial trouble, in spite of the introduction of the radically styled, fibreglass- bodied Avanti coupe model.
www.canadiandriver.com /articles/bv/hawk.htm   (801 words)

  
 On the Road 8x30;24x7
However, the Studebaker Drivers Club is preparing for the Grand Opening of a huge new Studebaker National Museum on Washington Street on October 28th of this year.
Studebaker was one of the only wagon and carriage makers to successfully make the transition to electric cars in 1902 and then gasoline automobiles in 1904.
Studebaker craftsmen made an award-winning wagon for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago (another old postcard for me to hunt for!) The box was made of rosewood and the metal parts were made from aluminum, a rare and precious metal at that time.
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 Studebaker traced its lineage to covered wagons that settled the west
Studebaker was among the biggest auto producers until the stock market crash in 1929.
The revolutionary '47 Studebaker ("couldn't tell if it was coming or going," comedians claimed) was the first post-World War II design and it caused a sensation, with its fenders integral with the body and squared-off front and rear decks.
Studebaker and Packard merged in 1954 in an effort by both these independents to stay alive, but it was not to be.
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 Ball Pocket watches-Pocket watches & Accessories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
At the turn of the twentieth century Studebaker was the world's largest manufacturer of wheeled goods, and the brand was known all over the world.
Studebaker was at that time the world!s largest manufacturer of wheeled goods, and the Studebaker name was associated with high quality and dependability, in fact it was literally a household word all around the world.
One would of course then be marked "Studebaker on the dial, the other on the movement, and thereby ably fool two unsuspecting buyers into believing they are purchasing a far more valuable "The Studebaker" grade, which of course they are not.
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 Urban Exploration Resource: Display Location: Studebaker Plant
In 1850 Henry and Clement Studebaker arrived in South Bend, Indiana where they founded H and C Studebaker factory to make wagons and became one of the largest manufactures of horse-drawn vehicles in the world.
Studebaker celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in 1927 and Albert Erskine was the master of the company.
Studebaker outdistanced its established competition by one-and-a-half to four full years and grabbed the public's imagination.
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 Studebaker Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The story of the Studebaker Watch Company (South Bend Watch Company) actually begins in Columbus, Ohio in the l800's when Detrich Gruen set up a watchmaking plant there.
The South Bend plant was running full stride, making both Studebaker and South Bend watches in a variety of qualitites, when the clouds of World War I appeared.
It seems, however, the Studebaker Watch Company never made it into the small clocks used in the automobile plant assembly line across town where fine cars of the era were being produced.
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 North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The last Studebaker was produced in the 1960s, but the Studebaker company’s history spans 114 years.
Brothers Henry and Clement Studebaker opened a flsmith shop in Indiana in 1852, which became Studebaker Manufacturing Company in 1868, eventually growing into the largest wagon manufacturer in the world.
Studebaker produced its first car, a model with an electric engine, in 1902, and its first gasoline engine in 1904.
www.ncdcr.gov /news/2005/NCTM04_11_2005.asp   (361 words)

  
 March History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As their advertisement claimed, "Studebaker is building an unlimited quantity of airplane engines, military trucks, and other materiel for national defense...
Nance, spiteful of the inefficiency that Studebaker brought to his company, generally ignored the input of his colleagues, instituting his own policies in an attempt to turn around the fortune of his new company.
The failed merger between Studebaker, which had been in operation since the 1890s, and Packard was emblematic of the post-war independent manufacturers’ scramble to consolidate.
clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/cowtownmopars/HistoryMAR.html   (5908 words)

  
 Museum Hawk: South Bend’s New Studebaker - The Car Connection
The Studebakers were a family of German flsmiths with five sons who moved west from Gettysburg, Penna., in a Conestoga wagon in 1835.
Despite its midwestern location, Studebaker early on began supplying the White House with presidential carriages, including the one in which Abraham Lincoln rode to the Ford Theater the night he was assassinated.
Fortunately for history, Clement Studebaker was a collector of horse-drawn vehicles decades before anyone thought of car collecting, so today you can view the Lincoln carriage, the family's Conestoga in which they traveled from Pennsylvania and many other interesting wagons among the motor vehicles at the new Studebaker National Museum.
www.thecarconnection.com /Enthusiasts/Classics_Corner/Museum_Hawk_South_Bends_New_Studebaker.S215.A9917.html   (1951 words)

  
 South Bend | Mishawaka INDIANA Convention and Visitors Bureau
The Studebaker National Museum’s collection includes a 1835 Conestoga Wagon, made by the Studebaker family and the last vehicle produced by the former Studebaker Corporation, a 1966 Crusier.
Tippecanoe Place Restaurant, former resident of Studebaker President Clement Studebaker, was completed in 1889 at a cost of a little more than $300 thousand.
On loan to the Studebaker National Museum is a 1935 Commander Roadster, which was used in the 1985 film, The Color Purple.
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For at least five generations in Germany, the Studebakers followed the metal working trade, and belonged to a guild, in which membership was restricted to certain families and trade secrets, such as forging techniques, tempering or heat treating of cutting tools, carefully guarded.
Emmert Studebaker of Tipp City, Ohio has a letter in his possession, dated September 16, 1737, written by Peter and Clement Studebaker, to their relatives back in Germany.
Her Aunt Mary Studebaker Walburn was working at the college cafeteria as a cook at that time and probably assisted her in getting this job.
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 German American Corner: STUDEBAKER BROTHERS
Two of these men, Clement (1831-1901) and John Mohler (1833-1917) Studebaker, were presidents of the company.
The Studebaker brothers were children of John S. and Rebecca Mohler Studebaker.
Clement and Henry moved to South Bend, Ind., in 1850.
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 About St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The church was a gift to the congregation from Clement Studebaker and his wife Ann.
The style chosen for the church was 15th century English Gothic, identified by its rounded arches, large spaces filled with lofty windows, and the use of gargoyles.
Studebaker himself is immortalized in the window which so inspired him.
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 GERMAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Studebaker ancestors, Clement and Peter, landed in Philadelphia in 1736.
The next year, Henry and Clem of the fourth generation in the U.S., founded "Studebaker Brothers." In 1858 they were joined by two other brothers and became makers of Conastoga style wagons, known for sturdiness and durability.
The first Studebaker automobile was built in 1902, an electric powered, open carriage with tiller steering.
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 Kathy and Perry
This was the home of Clement Studebaker and his family.
In 1868, Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Co. began with Clement as president, and it became the largest wagon and carriage manufacturing company in the world.
Studebaker was the only company to span the time from settler's wagons to high-performance automobiles.
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 Studebaker National Museum, South Bend, Indiana
At the Studebaker National Museum, you can view over 114 years of automobile history, from the Studebaker family's Conestoga Wagon to the last Studebaker to roll off the assembly line.
Studebaker sold automobiles under the EMF and Flanders names until 1913; from thereafter, all new cars carried the Studebaker name.
Studebaker was still producing wagons, and would do so until 1920, at which time automobile production was moved from Detroit to South Bend.
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 Studebaker...who made it? - HobbyTalk
Studebaker was it's own company, with a history of financial problems.
Studebaker has been resurected once again, but they find themselves in a legal tussle with GM over the design of their new SUV, which looks amazingly like the Hummer H-2.
The Studebaker Avanti is being manufactured once again, but by a separate group that I don't believe is affiliated with the new Studebaker group.
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 This Day in History
Clement Studebaker was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on this day.
During World War II, Studebaker manufactured aircraft engines, trucks, and amphibious vehicles for the war effort and emphasized their patriotic role by releasing cars called "The President," "The Champion," and "The Commander." Like many of the independents, Studebaker fared well during the war by producing affordable family cars.
As their advertisement claimed, "Studebaker is building an unlimited quantity of airplane engines, military trucks and other material for national defense...
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