finally converting to internal combustion vehicles.
The Studebaker Corporation of South Bend Indiana was in business from 1852 through 1966, first producing farm wagons and horse drawn vehicles, then adding electric motors when the horseless carriage began to make the future of horse drawn buggies something only the Amish were going to continue to use. As the internal combustion engine displaced the electric motor, they converted to gasoline vehicles, which they continued to make until their losses exceeded their profits with the end of the post WWII car boom. Offered here is a large (the image is 6 or almost 7 inches depending on whether it is printed on gift wrap or fabric) 1939 model with tan paint, brown outlines, over a rich red background. These cars had no power steering, only manual transmissions, no power brakes, and often not even electric turn signals. They were a bear and a half to park in tight spaces. But so were all the other cars of 1939. (frame 5362448)