Posted by INCase on February 17, 2015 at 09:33:40 from (209.221.240.193):
In Reply to: Re: studebaker posted by JD Seller on February 16, 2015 at 19:20:20:
my daughter interned at the Studebaker museum last summer.
They had her going thru old archives (papers)
Interesting the amount of stuff that was never gone thru yet even though the company has been out of business for 50 years now.
Mom had a couple Larks before I was born (before she met dad even).
There are actually a few buildings left around town but the old buildings shown above are gone. Pretty sad... pretty sad all that's left of the Oliver works is the power house.
Would have loved to have seen South Bend back in the hay day in the early/mid 1950s when Stude, Oliver and Bendix were going full bore.
The company never recovered from the high union wages they had to give into in the early 50's. Was down hill after that. Oliver had similar issues but not as bad but the Oliver family had lost interest too and sold. Disappointing, that even though the studebaker museum in on the oliver mansion property there is pretty much no Oliver farm equipment around. Just a prototype planter unit in the basement.
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