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Studebaker , Television , and Joe McCarthy

1950

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1950 Studebaker

The Studebaker Corporation had a 114 year history as a successful car company . It was only after severe financial problems that the company went out of business in 1966 . Studebaker Blacksmithing was established by the Studebaker brothers - Henry and Clement in 1852 Indiana . By 1868 a third brother had joined the business and the company became Studebaker Manufacturing Company . They produced a number of wagons during the mid 1800s which the United States Army desperately

needed for the Civil War (Rubenstein 95 . There were five Studebaker brothers in the firm , the most important being John M , who had begun his career as a manufacturer by making wheelbarrows in California during the gold rush . By the 1890 's , the company had grown to be the largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles in the world . It had also acquired a motor car enthusiast in Frederick S . Fish , who entered the organization in 1891 as general counsel (Rae 16

When cars or the horseless carriage were first introduced it was the Studebaker Corporation which was able to switch from manufacturing wagons to gas powered cars . Studebaker introduced the very first electric card in 1902 . In 1904 they made their first gas powered car and continued to make wagons until 1920 . In 1911 they merged with a Detroit car company . Studebaker became to produce EMF and Flanders cars before the named was officially changed to Studebaker in 1914 (Rae 220 In the 1930s it was the Raymond Loewy Associates that made most of the Studebaker auto designs . Studebaker was responsible for building B-17 Flying Fortress engines during World War II as well as M29C Weasels and military trucks

It was after the war that Studebaker really became successful . While most car companies went back to producing the same models they had been before the war , Studebaker produced new models that the public fell in love with . With new styles and hot new features like wrap around rear windows , bullet nose front ends , and the Studebaker V8 engine Studebaker was the top seller of cars in the 1950s . The behavioral theory of location fits some of the trends in the US automotive industry in the 1950s and 1960s . As smaller companies like Studebaker , Packard Hudson , Nash , Crosley , Willys , and Kaiser-Fraser ceased producing automobiles , the surviving firms adopted increasingly oligopolistic - if not monopolistic - practices . General Motors , by capturing more than half of all US car sales , flirted with violations of anti-trust rules and ignored government threats to split it up , as had happened to Standard Oil and US Steel in the past (Rubenstein 16 . Unfortunately in 1954 the Studebaker Corporation had some financial problems which forced them to merge with Packard in 1954 . Packard was having similar financial problems . Packard went out of business in 1958 and Studebaker struggled until 1963 when it closed its South Bend manufacturing plant Studebaker Corporation will always be remembered as the company that built moderately price and stylish cars...