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More than they promised : the Studebaker story
- Title
- More than they promised : the Studebaker story / Thomas E. Bonsall.
- Author
- Bonsall, Thomas E.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TL215.S79 B65 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 488 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This illustrated book on the automobile manufacturer traces the Studebaker family from its arrival in America in 1736, to the beginnings of the wagon business under John M. Studebaker and his brothers in the nineteenth century, to the family's entry into the automobile industry in 1902, to the last Studebaker automobile to roll off the assembly line in 1966." "The book, however, is much more than the story of a family business; it is also, in microcosm, the story of the industrial development of America. The Studebakers had always been industrialists in the sense that they made their living by manufacturing things, albeit on a small scale. When the Industrial Revolution hit the country with full force, spurred on be the Civil War, it transformed America from a rural-agrarian society into an urban-industrial one. The fortunes of the Studebaker family were transformed with it."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-478) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The wagon years -- The early auto years -- The rise of Erskine -- The fall of Erskine -- Back from the abyss -- The war years -- Studebaker Amnia Vincit -- The Packard operation -- The lark ascendant -- The swan song -- Metamorphosis -- Postscript -- Why Studebaker failed -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0804735867
- 9780804735865
- LCCN
- 00063564
- OCLC
- ocm44769033
- 44769033
- SCSB-1146490
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library