THE LEADING AMERICAN CARTHE “STUDEBAKER.”
In these days when any foreigssounding name is apt to come node suspicion of enemy origin it is $ as well to give tbe facts reganiiil the word “Studehaker, ” as api® to one of the best known motor as in the world. Stndebaker is i Dutch name. The ancestors oft* present chairman of the StudebatS corporation, Mr J. M. Studebato left Holland 180 years ago w America, so that the Studebats family in America to-day belongs® the old “Knickerbocker” arisfocrsrj of American society. They arsS longer Dutch, but as assuredly s» undoubtedly American as Mr It? dore Roosevelt or the Yanderl'® It may be ns well to mention, te that the Studebakgr -Corporation a been a very active helper Allied cause during the ?***s war, subscribing a million dollars* the Allies’ war loan, and coats? ing to supply enormous quantaV of motor vehicles for Britain, BtS? and France. During the Sw African war the Stndebaker W supplied Britain with military gons, and Lord Roberts prononK* tbe Stndebaker waggons to kej best ever used by the British afl? in the field. The Studehaker-* has been established in America* sixty-four years. It is a P t! | American concern, financed g American capital, controlled J Americans, and with a head ow South Bend, Indiana. StndeM» cars Tire designed by America. built out of American matensi. American and Canadian factcr*®*American and Canadian workßL We have to announce that a,*” meat of “Stndebaker” cars is , to arrive by the ‘‘Pakeha’ « - from the Canadian factories « Walkorsville, Ontario, ADAMS, LTD., N.Z. DistripnJ ot “Studehaker” Cars, Cii:istcb B v Avenue, Wanganui. Local her Stations;—Rofe and Walker, ton; Ford and Barney, Bull'.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 15 August 1916, Page 4
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277THE LEADING AMERICAN CARTHE “STUDEBAKER.” Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 15 August 1916, Page 4
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