The Lamberti papers #22 (June 3, 1963)

[Studebaker Wheel]

[monomaniac]

Purchasing shipwrecked units -- I've heard Dennis from SASCO mention this before. Is there any news about this in the archives?
When was the shipwreck? How many Studebaker vehicles were involved? Etc?

[BobGlasscock]

"We had about 10 people approach us about Studebaker going into racing and attended a meeting of about 4 hours with the hot rod people about drag racing."

Oh, puleeze. Such foolishness, Studebakers are sensible, economical cars.

[Welcome]

Purchasing shipwrecked units -- I've heard Dennis from SASCO mention this before. Is there any news about this in the archives?
When was the shipwreck? How many Studebaker vehicles were involved? Etc?

Art, if no one else provides the info you seek, I'll see if the South Bend Tribune covered the story. If they did, and we know an approximate date, it should be fairly easy to locate it on micro-film in the St. Joe County Public Library.

Also, the comment; "." would lead me to believe these "vehicles" were being shipped CKD ...or at least SKD to Belgium.

[ddub]

Maybe this has been answered already but what is the "snowbank" they talk about? I'm sure by June the spring thaw has reached South Bend.

[clonelark]

If the guy keeping all the engines after the ship wreck at Muskegon there may be a lot of them around there, maybe he ended up just scrapping them. And maybe these were all those frames at SASCO.
I doubt if these frames had serial numbers yet, if they did maybe they were they reserialed if used. Anyone have one of these frames from SASCO?
Did they have serial numbers?

[kurtruk]

Just to let you know: This board meeting was held exactly one day after I was born.

Moving on...

2. New York Taxicabs

Mr. Challinor received a copy of the new ordinance for the City of New York and is concerned about our car meeting the required dimension from the floor pan to the roof. . He will meet with Engineering to see what can be done. The colors of the cabs are being restricted to help cut down the crime. They can make a faster identification of each cab if they are all alike.

Oh such quality engineering.

[56H-Y6]

Hi



This might explain why the rear roofline of the '64 models are are raised noticibly. I prefer the gentle slope they had up until then, but if this change helped pass this requirement, it had to go.

Steve

[8E45E]

. He will meet with Engineering to see what can be done. Oh such quality engineering.

Believe me, I've seen some pretty 'rough' factory modifications made to big rigs; most notably, fire-fighting equipment; even lately. Some of the things I've seen are raw cuts in the grille which remains upright while the rest of the hood tilts as a huge pump sits in front on the extended bumper, and wouldn't clear otherwise. And there are other areas I have seen where hasty modifications were made in the interiors of other trucks as well.

Craig

[Guster]

We have 147 orders that can’t be built – we have orders, but not what has been projected. According to Mr. Soelch, 78 of those orders are for Newman & Altman, the material for which isn’t on order. There will be a meeting on trucks at 3 o’clock today in Mr. Whitmer’s office.

I guess Studebaker invented lean manufacturing. Not having the parts for 147 vehicles that they have orders for is real lean

[cruiser]

It's been about a week since my latest 'fix' so I hope there is a Lamberti papers #23.

It's just that I remember that the 'folder' stops at some time during June 1963 .

So , in any event , we must be near the end . If we can't track down the 'minutes'

of the next six months , can I suggest that the Board of Directors 'minutes' from

August 1963 onwards be "published" here on the SDC Forum , as we already

know that they do indeed exist . In the meantime I wonder what avenues "WE"

could pursue to try and complete the rest of the 1963 Dept Heads 'Minutes' .

They must be out there somewhere . Thanks in advance to Richard Quinn and

Dr Lamberti's son in bringing these 'papers' to light after 48 years .

CRUISER

[Silverplate]

I have looked forward to the posting of everyone of them. First thing I look for is has another been posted. Thanks for the efforts.