Still standing, though severely damaged, the Studebaker
Plant
on Piquette Ave. at John R St. launched Studebaker to automotive
prominence in the teens and twenties. |
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 Studebaker Plant Burns to the Ground
June 20-21, 2005 - Click
HERE to view images.
The Studebaker Piquette Avenue Plant
produced cars at this plant from 1910 through 1928. Prior to
that this was a production site for the Wayne and E-M-F
automobiles.
Growing from this wood-beamed plant, Studebaker became
a major automaker noted being ahead of its times with its
innovative designs.
It met its demise, along with Packard, in the late fifties
and early sixties when the Big Three [General Motors, Ford
and Chrysler] consolidated their oligopoly of automobile manufacturing
in the United States.
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