1910-1919

1910
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company purchases the Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company, an automobile manufacturer in Detroit, and is renamed The Studebaker Corporation .

1911-1915
Albert Russel Erskine joins the company, and rises to first vice president by 1913. He is made president in July, 1915.

1914-1918
Studebaker enters World War I, when the British government places an initial order for 3,000 wagons. Additional orders come in from England and are joined by orders from France and Russia, and eventually the United States upon its entry into the War. Items supplied eventually include equipage ambulances, artillery carriages, bayonet scabbards, staff cars, and caterpillars.

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