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The Studebaker test applied to this ground; Hoosier's share stated
Lakeville has no proving ground; the county's famous one stands west of South Bend, and printing the test whole requires saying both halves. Hoosier Racing Tire's Lakeville ground is a headquarters and distribution centre on State Road 931; all manufacture is at Plymouth. No test track, proving ground, or plant-site fame attaches to the Lakeville site in any carrier reached — its fame is the gate and the letterhead, exactly as the banked roll states. The county's industrial-fame ground is the Studebaker Proving Ground, built in 1926 on some 850 acres west of South Bend on State Road 2: the ground where the Army Ordnance Department tested military vehicles from June 1943 to June 1945, and where in 1938 the company planted its signature in living form — a stand of pine trees spelling STUDEBAKER, planted to be read from the air, the tree sign that survives today inside Bendix Woods County Park, its clubhouse and sign together on the National Register. The ground passed to Bendix in 1966, which gave 175 acres, clubhouse and sign among them, to the county; the track itself works on under Bosch. And the signature objects: the presidents' carriages and the company's vehicular line live in the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend — the forwarding address of Studebaker's fame. The residue for Hoosier is stated: where Hoosier's own signature objects — its earliest racing tyres, its founders' effects — now live is published in no carrier reached, and the company-museum test above carries the settler.