Studebaker Bros. records

[studeclunker]

Does anybody know if any records survived from the earlier (pre 1915) Studebaker Bros. company? I don't believe there were any inventory numbers or VINs on the Carriages. Still, it would be interesting to know if production numbers and such were available.

[fargoguy]

I don't know for sure, but i was always under the impression that Studebaker Corp had one of the most Complete and intact set of corporate records in existence. Perhaps Mr Quinn can clarify that for us.

[62champ]

If I remember from doing research back in the mid-90s, there are some of the original ledger books in the archives but not much else (this wasn't what I was looking at so I could be wrong). From what I understood from the husband/wife archivist at the time a lot of documentation was lost when taken over by the city and the to Syracuse/from Syracuse moves took place.

[HAWK64]

If I remember from doing research back in the mid-90s, there are some of the original ledger books in the archives but not much else (this wasn't what I was looking at so I could be wrong). From what I understood from the husband/wife archivist at the time a lot of documentation was lost when taken over by the city and the to Syracuse/from Syracuse moves took place.

I believe the husband / wife archivists were a Mr & Mrs Denham who both had good knowledge & extremely helpful probably back in the early nineties. I did see some of those ledger books going back to the late 1850's but they did not contain information of what we know today as vin or serial numbers.