Did Studebaker make 6x6 Military trucks in 1952?

[Lynn]

Really?

http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/cto/5850502455.html

[rockne10]

I'm pretty certain they did.

[TWChamp]

Our unit in Fort Bliss had Studebaker 6 x 6 trucks in 1969, but I never checked to see the year of manufacture.
I'd bet they were from that time period though, as about the only use they saw was when we went out into the desert to play war games.

[Alan]

Korean War relics.

[Bob Langer]

A Brief History of Studebaker Trucks:
An Analysis of Production Records

By Skip Lackie


The U.S. Government did provide some additional work, however. The Korean War triggered a requirement for new trucks for the Army and Marine Corps, and Studebaker proposed an all-new 2½-ton 6x6 military truck. Unfortunately, Reo’s bid won the competition. However, Reo was not able to meet the production targets, and sub-contracted with Studebaker to build trucks to Reo’s design. Studebaker ended up building 19,535 M34 and M35 2½-ton, 6x6 military trucks in 1952, and another 9,898 in 1953. These were strictly assembly operations, with no Studebaker-unique content added. They did, however, help to keep the truck production line running.

[jts359]

They were still there in 1971 when I was stationed at Ft. Bliss A battery 8/7 artillery Group

[rockne10]

Lycoming County Solid Waste Authority, just south of Williamsport, PA was still using one as recently as 1999.

[62champ]

Local volunteer fire department in the small (300) community my father grew up in was still using one as a brush truck in 2005.

Looks like the same company that made door/window handles for R-series trucks for Studebaker did the same for these trucks as well...

[t walgamuth]

My dad worked on the army trucks in the early fifties at the plant out southwest of the main plant on the road that runs south of Indiana 23....can't think of the name but it runs across the south side of town and next to the mall and a golf course ultimately running to Mishewauka and Osceola. I believe that plant later was where they built wheel horse tractors.

[Skip Lackie]

Studebaker continued to build Army trucks to military specs right until the end of production in 1963 in South Bend. In fact, the company won a new Army contract for 6x6 trucks in late 1963. In 1964, the company sold its defense products division, including this contract and all of its parts inventory, to the Kaiser Jeep Corp. Kaiser Jeep also bought (from the federal govt) the Chippewa Ave plant that Studebaker had used for truck production. Kaiser Jeep was later purchased by American Motors, and this division became AM General, the originator of the Humvee.

Annual production numbers of Studebaker-built Army trucks are provided in the Stude truck history referenced above.

[Mrs K Corbin]

HHB 2/152 FA out of Ft. Smith had a Studebaker Deuce as late as 1996.

Funny I was trained at Ft. Bliss 1992.