The Studebaker National Museum tells the story of brothers Henry and Clement Studebaker who started manufacturing wagons in 1852 in South Bend, Indiana.
During the Civil War, the company produced wagons for the Union Army as well as carriages. By 1875, the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company was the world’s largest ...
Harry Stutz was hired by the founders of Empire Motor Car Company (Carl Fisher, James Allison, Arthur Newby, and Robert Hassler) to take over the management of Empire Motor Car Company. Fisher, Allison, and Newby entrusted Hassler to manage the company and had not provided much oversight. When in 1911, ...
The Empire Motor Company was started by Indianapolis Motor Speedway founders Carl Fisher, James Allison, and Arthur Newby and mechanical engineer Robert Hassler to manufacture a low cost, four-cylinder, 20 horsepower car. It was 1909, the same year as the construction and opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Not only ...
The Belond Exhaust Special has a special place in Indianapolis 500 history. It won the Indianapolis 500 twice but with different drivers. Sam Hanks drove to Victory Lane in 1957 and Jimmy Bryan in 1958.
George Salih, senior engineer and plant manager with Meyer & Drake Offenhauser, was the chief ...
Speedway co-founder Carl Fisher began the tradition of the pace car starting the Indianapolis 500 when he drove a Stoddard-Dayton to start the 1911 race. He drove the pace car to start the first five Indianapolis 500s (1911-1915). He owned a Stoddard-Dayton dealership and in 1911, 1913, and 1914 this ...