Independent truck manufacturers have numbered far fewer than Independents building cars, and while several independent truck makers still exist today, one managed to outlive Studebaker before disappearing just as American Motors was vanishing into Chrysler.
Hahn Motors is generally remembered for the fire trucks it produced, but there’s much more to its story. Hahn was one of the numerous firms that made the transition from building horse-drawn wagons to motor vehicles, and one of the relatively few to have survived such a major change and gone on to thrive in its new market. Studebaker is probably the best-known example of both,
