Have we got enough vehicles ?

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At that stage of the war it was not a matter of if but when it would end. A lot of orders were being cut back and personnel being released.

The Lend Lease agreement finalised only a few months after the war obviously was being worked on for much longer than that.

A part of the agreement stated all existing orders and contracts by Australia to USA had to be completed (to avoid sudden collapse of US industry overnight). I strongly suspect the Studebakers were caught up in that situation. "You may not need them now but you ordered them and the show will go on"

Just like the American aircraft industry kept churning out aircraft that made one flight to huge storage depots and were scrapped without a further flight.