Have any of these survived?

[jclary]

While looking at the link Jeff Rice posted on the Smithsonian, I saw where they said Studebaker produced gun caissons in addition to wagons for the military during the civil war. In the Studebaker museum at South Bend, I think they have a horse-drawn military Ambulance. I don't think I have ever seen a Studebaker gun caisson. Does anyone know if any survived? Any pictures?

[HAWK64]

I believe the horse drawn military ambulance was built by Studebaker for the Spanish American War in Cuba. I was not aware that gun caissons were built by Studebaker during the Civil War period.

[rockne10]

I know there's a Spanish-American War Studebaker ambulance in the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pa. There may also be a Studebaker gun caisson. Will check it out.

http://pamilmuseum.org/

[Chris_Dresbach]

For the Civil War Studebaker made wagons for the Union army. They also made just the wheels for "big guns". I've seen one of these wheels, it's in the SNM. No gun cassons that I know of.

[jclary]

The easy thing is to get caught up in "civil war" era thinking, but I believe some of the wagons in the South Bend museum are WWI wagons. I understand that this would be at a time that Studebaker was moving on from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. However, since the horse-drawn vehicles were what we would call a "mature" industry, I would think that any gun caissons built after the civil war would be very similar to earlier versions. That makes me wonder if at that time was Studebaker employing their own wheelwrights or outsourcing the wheels from another manufacturer.

[Chris_Dresbach]

I did some digging. Studebaker made the wheels for the gun cassons. There is also a civil war Studebaker ambo. wagon at South Bend's Military Honor Park that belongs to the SNM. One of the wheels Studebaker made is in the SNM.