Old Studebaker Letter

[Carl Purdy]

I drove my 51 to the store while I was getting out of the car a lady walked up and said her husband used to drive a studebaker and he had some pictures and a poster. And would I like to have them. She sent them to me. This is a letter. Dated Aug 5 1905



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As soon as you find a product you like they will stop making it.

[Guido]

Interesting. I noted that it is dated 1905 and they mention automobiles (though I think they were only producing electrics). Note the date on the first shop is 1850 though they did not start operations until 1852. I have a full uncut sheet of postcards with the same image as the factory picture.


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Hiding and preserving Studebakers in Richmond, Goochland & Louisa, Va.

[Guido]

Interesting. I noted that it is dated 1905 and they mention automobiles (though I think they were only producing electrics). Note the date on the first shop is 1850 though they did not start operations until 1852. I have a full uncut sheet of postcards with the same image as the factory picture.


http://community.webshots.com/user/GuidoSalvage

Hiding and preserving Studebakers in Richmond, Goochland & Louisa, Va.

[Carl Purdy]

I think they started producing wagons in 1852. The one that shows 1850 was just a blacksmith shop.


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As soon as you find a product you like they will stop making it.

[Carl Purdy]

I think they started producing wagons in 1852. The one that shows 1850 was just a blacksmith shop.


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As soon as you find a product you like they will stop making it.

[Frank Starr]

"not much chance to spend money in Kansas..."

Jeez, you can only laugh - they'd actually say that in a letter. No sensitivity training then.

Frank Starr
Seattle

[Frank Starr]

"not much chance to spend money in Kansas..."

Jeez, you can only laugh - they'd actually say that in a letter. No sensitivity training then.

Frank Starr
Seattle

[comatus]

No, Frank, it's a joke. A really good one: Kansas went "dry" in 1880, the first state to do so. That's why there'd be nothing to spend money on--and the "investment" would probably have been bootleg.

[comatus]

No, Frank, it's a joke. A really good one: Kansas went "dry" in 1880, the first state to do so. That's why there'd be nothing to spend money on--and the "investment" would probably have been bootleg.

[Avantidon]

The picture dated 1850 is actually of the Blacksmith Shop in Ashland Ohio. Wagons were produced from 1852 on. In 1905, the factory was producing and selling horse-drawn buggies and wagons, electric powered cars, trucks and buses and gas powered vehicle under the name of Studebaker-Garford. Only company to produce all three types of vehicles. At the International Meet in Lancaster this fall, there will be a major lobby exhibit at the AACA Museum, a short 25 mile drive away and a tour site stop, in hershey, PA showing all three facets of the Studebaker operation. Come to Lancaster in September and see the ONLY exhibit outside of the SNM showing horse-drawn, electric and gas powered vehicles by Studebaker in one place at one time.

See you in the future as I write about our past

[Avantidon]

The picture dated 1850 is actually of the Blacksmith Shop in Ashland Ohio. Wagons were produced from 1852 on. In 1905, the factory was producing and selling horse-drawn buggies and wagons, electric powered cars, trucks and buses and gas powered vehicle under the name of Studebaker-Garford. Only company to produce all three types of vehicles. At the International Meet in Lancaster this fall, there will be a major lobby exhibit at the AACA Museum, a short 25 mile drive away and a tour site stop, in hershey, PA showing all three facets of the Studebaker operation. Come to Lancaster in September and see the ONLY exhibit outside of the SNM showing horse-drawn, electric and gas powered vehicles by Studebaker in one place at one time.

See you in the future as I write about our past