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1899–1918 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY), WITH THE PATTERN'S VERDICT TESTED
No foreign wartime trial of an Osceola product, with an outside army's verdict quoted, exists — there was no Osceola product to try (art-60-2). The row's pattern (a Boer War trial and Lord Roberts's report) was itself tested against the published firm record for the county's flagship, and the result prints honestly: the verbatim Lord Roberts verdict was not found in any open source reached. What the record does hold, whole, is the trial's sequel in orders: the British government, “which had used Studebaker wagons in the Boer War,” cabled at the outbreak of war in August 1914 for 3,000 transport wagons selected from its catalogue, filled in six weeks; then 20,000 sets of six-horse English artillery harness and 60,000 artillery saddles — “probably the largest single order of its kind ever placed” — contracted for twenty weeks and completed in sixteen; then ambulances, drinking wagons, spare parts and repeat orders. A repeat order of that size, from the army that had used the wagons in South Africa, is evidence of a favourable verdict; it is not the verdict's text, and this article does not dress it as a quotation. Named gap (verdict text): the Boer War trial report itself — settler: the War Office trial records and the Studebaker papers (Studebaker National Museum archives).
Sources: Erskine (1919), pp. 78–79 (Boer War use; 1914 cable order; harness and saddle counts and timings); searches for the Roberts report text, Nov. 2026 — not found in open sources.