THE LEADING AMERICAN CAR – THE “STUDEBAKER.”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 16 August 1916, Page 4

THE LEADING AMERICAN CAR - THE “STUDEBAKER.”

In these days when any foreignsounding name is apt to come under suspicion of enemy origin it is just as well to give the facts regarding the word “Studebaker,” as applied' to one of the best known motor can in the world. Studebaker is as Duteh.name. The ancestors of the;, present chairman of the Studebaker corporation, Mr J. M. Studebaker, left Holland 180 years ago for America, so that the Studebaker family in America to-day belongs to] the old “Knickefbocker” aristocracy of American society. They arenif longer Dutch, boras assuredly and undoubtedly American as Mr Theodore Roosevelt or the Yauderbillf. It may be as well to mentiou, too, that the Studebaker Corporation has been a very active helper of the Allied cause during the present war, subscribing a million dollars to the Allies’ war loan, -and contracting to supply enormous quantities of motor vehicles for Britain, Russia and France. During the Soutb> African war the Studebaker firm, supplied Britain with military waggons, and Lord Roberts pronounced the Studebaker waggons to be tbebest ever used by the Britisli Aratf;: in the field. The Studebaker firm ‘ has been established in America W-sixty-four years, It is a purely American concern, financed by American capital, controlled by Americans, and with a head South Bend, Indiana. Studebaker cars are designed by Americans, bnilt out of American material i» American and Canadian factories by, American and Canadian workmen We have to announce that a sbip| ment of “Studebaker” cars is doe to arrive by the “Pakeba” direct from the Canadian factories Walkersville, Ontario, Canada-’ ADAMS, LTD., N.Z. Distribute* ot ’ ’Studebaker” Cars, Christchurch: Avenue, Wanganui. Local ServiceStations: —Rofe aud Walker. Marton ; Ford and Barney, Bulls.