807 Comments for Studebaker Stamping Plant

Onan generators were and are not Studebaker engines, although Studebaker Corp. owned Onan and produced generators at a plant in Scotland. The decendants of the Studebaker Corporation still own Onan.

Many of those files were left behind by Allied Products Corporation. Others were probably left behind by a company by the name of EWI. Allied acquired the stamping plant from Studebaker in 1963. Allied operated the plant as South Bend Stamping until 1991 when it sold the stamping business to EWI. Allied continued to own the building housing the stamping equipment as well as a couple other former Studebaker buildings. EWI went bankrupt in the mid 1990's. Allied stored records at the facility until it went bankrupt and turned the buildings it owned over to the City of South Bend.

Rust happens, but this is irreplaceable history. Great pictures, sad so few give a damn.

Aren't those riveted flex fans?? Not an old Stude item.

When I was 15 and legally able to get my driver's license (in California) my dad went down to the junk yard and bought a 1947 Studebaker for me to practice driving on. It was real cool -- had that little window in the back -- manual transmission on the steering column -- bet I could still shift it! No, I'm not that OLD.

Wow! Those are complete Studebaker engine assemblies with the manual transmissions attached.

I bet there are Studebaker collectors out there that would just drool looking at these pictures. It's truly amazing what happens when a factory is abandoned.

hehe, hmm as i am in the national guard maybe i could get some of those? for our army truck "replacement" engines....lol actually i have some major off roading passions with my fellow guardsmen...

No it looked like the dies were removed.

I would've guessed that it's a baler, but since there was a stamping operation, must be a stamping machine? Was there a die in the bottom of it for something that was getting stamped?

imagine you started all those engines :D

Stuff like this always reminds me of that movie Aliens, when they go to that planet and drive that Armoured Car thing into a tunnel.

Lou, it's "creosote". Preserves timber and eliminates termites. It has a really strong sort of "antiseptic" smell. In Sydney (Australia) several of our older streets were made of these blocks. i remember, as a boy, sixty years ago, smelling the blocks burning in nightwatchmen's braziers, as our beautiful nineteenth century city was "modernised".

Ok, this one does have engines.

Tony C, what engines are you seeing?? There aren't any in this photo, or any other in this set.

jane, these buildings were built in 1919 and were state-of-the-art then. Everyone used multi-story assembly plants, even Henry Ford. And IH didn't shut down most of it's operations for good. They still build trucks under the International name and Case New Holland bought the off-road operations.