Topical Guide 246
Mark Dorset
Vehicles: Studebaker: Gentlemen’s Road Cart
The chain of events that led to Luther’s losing his fingers began in 1902, when Luther bought a Studebaker Brothers Gentleman’s Road Cart. … The Gentleman’s Road Cart was a lean, handsome, jaunty, bachelor-uncle’s sort of vehicle. …
The Gentleman’s Road Carts did something to him. … His daredevil driving earned him the spoken condemnation and unspoken admiration of most of the other men in Chacallit, and it earned him the attention of young girls.
Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 2
I was astonished to discover, when I found the Studebaker advertisement below, that the cart was called the Gentlemen’s Road Cart, not the Gentleman’s Road Cart. Someone’s face should be red.
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