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1927 Studeba

Studebaker Brother's Manufacturing Company History (Continued from top)

Studebaker Logo in 1912  

The Studebaker Brothers were making wagon wheels in 1852 and founded the Studebaker Corporation in 1911 to build cars. The brothers saw a market in providing vehicles for farmers to move their goods to market. In 1926 Studebaker opened the first proving ground and in 1937 and created many innovative features in the years that followed. Between Ford, General Motors and the United Auto Workers union they could not stay solvent and merged with the Pontiac Motor Car Company in the early 1950s. However by 1956 they were still in debt and discontinued the Packard name in 1962 to cut costs.

Studebaker produced cars until 1966 and was sold to the Worthington Corporation in 1979, which sold to the McGraw-Edison in 1985, which then sold out to Federal-Mogul.

The Studebaker trademark was sold to the Avanti Motor Corporation in 2003.