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Automobiles · The Ground's Tests and the Cities' Machines
The first automobiles: the claims stated, and no crown printed
ROW 1 · NAMED GAP — THE TOWNSHIP FIRST IS NOT IN THE RECORD REACHED
Every place of this age is owed its first-automobile test, and this ground's test returns a discipline, not a date: no first-automobile claim for Clay or Harris townships — no named first owner, first machine, or first drive on…
The homebuilders: no named builder stands in the record
ROW 2 · NAMED GAP — SEARCHES SHOWN
Before the factories, the pattern elsewhere is the farm-shop car — one machine, built once, by a named man — and this ground's record, searched, names none: no homebuilt automobile, and no builder of one, in Clay or Harris…
The carriage-crossover house: the test, and the one house that passes it
ROW 3 · GROUND TESTED NEGATIVE; THE CROSSOVER IS SOUTH BEND'S, PRINTED WHOLE AT BOUNDARY SIZE
The carriage-crossover test asks whether a wagon or carriage firm of this ground ever built an automobile. For the ground itself the answer is no — and for the county it is the most famous yes in American wagon history, seated in…
Every production marque, one by one — and none of them this ground's
ROW 4 · BOUNDARY WHOLE; GROUND TESTED NEGATIVE
The business leg's test was a plant-of-scale test, and the audit is right that an early small marque would slip it; this article runs the marque test by name. For the ground: no production automobile marque — no motor-buggy…
The false marques, tested and dispelled
ROW 5 · TESTED NEGATIVE — SEARCHES SHOWN
Two names circulate in the pattern of other builds' false marques — a car called by the place's own name, and a supplier's buggy that never was — and both fail on this ground, in print: (1) A car called "South Bend." No…
The assembled-elsewhere boundary: sold here, built there
ROW 6 · BOUNDARY WHOLE
Built-here and sold-here blur in every telling of this county's cars, and this article keeps them apart, car by car: E-M-F (1908–1912). The Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company of Detroit — incorporated 4 August 1908 — built…
The secret car: the Bendix SWC, 1934
ROW 7 · BOUNDARY WHOLE — SOUTH BEND'S ONE-OFF; NO ONE-OFF OF THIS GROUND
The ground's own one-off test returns none — no secret, prototype, or single-example car was built, hidden, or found in Clay or Harris townships in the record reached — and the county's one-off is whole, strange, and South…
The truck and utility course: the works that served the wars
ROW 8 · BOUNDARY WHOLE — SOUTH BEND / MISHAWAKA; NO TRUCK WORKS ON THIS GROUND
No truck or utility works has stood on this ground — the making layer is plain — and the county's truck course is two works in two cities, printed whole at boundary size: Studebaker's war trucks (South Bend). Studebaker had sold…
The living plant at its true addresses
ROW 9 · TRUE SIZE — REAFFIRMED, ADDRESSES VERIFIED
The register already prints this row at true size, and this section reaffirms it with the addresses the lore usually gets wrong: no assembly plant stands, or has ever stood, inside the Granger CDP — the making layer's tenant roll…
The supplier web: the parts this county sold the world
ROW 10 · BOUNDARY WHOLE; GROUND TESTED NEGATIVE
The parts trade is manufacture, and this county's parts trade was a giant — in South Bend. On this ground, the supplier test returns the making layer's answer, searched once more by name: no automotive supplier — no maker of…
The street record: garages, gasoline, jitneys, and the motor club
ROW 11 · HIGHWAY HALF OWNED BY TRANSPORTATION; THIS HALF PART-DUG, PART-GAP
The highway half of this row is already whole — State Road 23's designation (1930), the Toll Road (1956) and its late interchange, the widening and roundabout era stand in the transportation leg and are not re-run here. What…
The culture close: drive-ins and the cruise
ROW 12 · NAMED GAP — NO DRIVE-IN OF THIS GROUND IN THE RECORD REACHED
The car as the evening's room is the close this section owes, and on this ground it must close as a gap with a boundary shape, because the record reached seats no drive-in theater inside the CDP at any date: no Granger drive-in…