More than they promised (The Studebaker story)
Editorial STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780804735865
- ISBN10 0804735867
- Type Book
- Pages 488
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Cloth
More than they promised (The Studebaker story)
Editorial STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
This illustrated book on the automobile manufacturer traces the Studebaker family from its arrival in America in 1736, to the beginnings of the wagon business under John M. Studebaker and his brothers in the nineteenth century, to the family's entry into the automobile industry in 1902, to the last Studebaker automobile to roll off the assembly line in 1966." "The book, however, is much more than the story of a family business; it is also, in microcosm, the story of the industrial development of America. The Studebakers had always been industrialists in the sense that they made their living by manufacturing things, albeit on a small scale. When the Industrial Revolution hit the country with full force, spurred on be the Civil War, it transformed America from a rural-agrarian society into an urban-industrial one. The fortunes of the Studebaker family were transformed with it.