More Than They Promised
Subtitle: The Studebaker Story
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: November 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780804735865
Subjects: Economic history; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Studebaker automobile; Automobile Industries (Economic Aspects); History Of Specific Companies; History - U.S; Transportation; USA; Studebaker-Packard Corporation; Automotive - History; Corporate & Business History - General; United States - General; History / United States / General; History
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.