Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,673 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Studebaker

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1913. From The Autocar of 10th May

Cars

  • Studebaker were better known for their large cars in Britain.
  • They built horse-drawn vehicles for a number of years followed by electric ones.
  • Later on still cars and petrol engined commercial chassis were developed.
  • 1925 a range of normal-control chassis with a 5.9 litre six-cylinder engine was used in the cars.

Buses

  • A collection of PSV's went from seating 14 passengers to large single-deckers with an eight-cylinder petrol engine.
  • 1928 fourteen were running on the express service from Glasgow.

Sources of Information

  • Ian Allan - British Buses Since 1900 - Aldridge and Morris