100 % right on the B-17 motors. All four on the Collings
Foundation "909" are Stude versions of the radial aircraft
engines.. Back a few years ago at the EAA Sun & Fun fly-in
I got hanging around with the awards judges. One commented to
me that the first thing they look for on a B-17 engine is the
"made by Studebaker" ID plates.
Bob B
>From: DDoyle9570@aol.com
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: Re: [MV] M35 Windshield DATA
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:43:38 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/1/01 8:49:52 PM Central Daylight Time,
>lathrrs@snip.net
>writes:
>
><< Names like Kaiser and
> Studebaker no longer exist and should be remembered as well. >>
>
>As a part of my "research" I have been investigating the G-742 family
>tree...and where these companies have gone is interesting all in itself.
>For example:
>Reo Motors Inc. is not a name familiar to this generation, the name has
>disappeared from the landscape, but the company is still around....in 1954
>Reo Motors assets (except cash and accounts receivable) were transferred to
>Reo Holdings Company, that company then changed its name to the Nuclear
>Corporation of America (remember, at that time anything nuclear was
>powerful
>and progressive), which has since changed its name to an acronym Nucor, and
>is active in the steel industry. Along the way there have been many other
>turns involving Diamond T, White, Bohn Aluminum, etc. Reo was a large,
>diverse manufacturer, building not only trucks, but lawnmowers, engines
>(from
>lawnmower to truck size), and rockets.
>Studebaker is even more convoluted...becoming Studebaker-Packard, then
>Studebaker-Worthington, and in 1979 was taken over by McGraw-Edison and
>vanished. Studebaker had even more turns, involving Curtiss-Wright, and
>Utica-Bend (deuces with either of these nameplates, as well as S-P are out
>there).
>The big Studebaker plant on Chippewa Avenue on the outskirts of South Bend
>still stands...it was built by the govt during WWII and operated by
>Studebaker to build Wright Cyclone aircraft engines under license (look at
>the nameplate on the engines on many of the flying B-17s...builders plate
>doesn't say Curtiss-Wright, rather, Studebaker Corporation). The plant
>passed back and forth between Stude and C-W after the war, before winding
>up
>as Kaiser-Jeep's, which in turn became General Products Div of American
>Motors, then AM General. Two months ago, the plant was surrounded by new
>Humvee's although I understand they are no longer built there.
>
>More boring tales to come later.
>David Doyle
>
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