license from Studebaker. The REO versions of the truck had some changes, such as different door handles and a more powerful engine. It is estimated that REO produced around 20,000 of these trucks and, unlike the original Studebaker trucks which were also used by the United States, the REO versions were only for export to the Soviet Union. Products Cars 19 AS 96-T Comet DC Flying Cloud Flying Cloud Mate GB Gold Comet M-109 M-34 M-35 M-35 A1 M-48 M-49 M-50 M-52 M-Series M-246 R-5 "Reo the Fifth" Royale Royale Elite Runabout T-6 Trucks 19 AS AC Apollo Comet DC GB Giant Gold Comet M35 Raider Royale Speed Wagon Speed Delivery Speed Tanker Buses 96HTD W series Gold Comet Clients Toronto Transportation Commission Israel Defense Forces REOs in popular culture The band REO Speedwagon took their name from the REO Speed Wagon light delivery truck, an ancestor of pickup trucks. The band Diamond Rio took their name from REO's successor company Diamond Reo Trucks. The band misspelled "Reo" as "Rio", but lead singer Marty Roe decided to make a virtue out of his mistake. "I like it like that. It has a country-Southwestern flavor", he told the Chicago Tribune’s Jack Hurst. A REO is mentioned in a humorous 1933 short story The Car We Had to Push by James Thurber. It tells the story of Thurber’s family car, which would only start if pushed a long way. After several odd adventures, the car is destroyed by a trolley car. In the John Wayne movie Big Jake, set in 1909, the Texas Rangers were traveling in REOs, which were later destroyed by the bandits. (The cars destroyed were replicas, rather than the actual vehicles.) The song The Incomparable Mr. Flannery by band Clutch from their 2005 album Robot Hive/Exodus mentions the REO Speed Wagon. The song Night Guard by Canadian folk musician Stan Rogers mentions "a blacked-out Reo coming for another load". In the song, the Reo is the vehicle that thieves have been using to transport cattle they have stolen from an ex-rodeo rider who left the circuit to take up ranching. The song ends with the rancher firing his Winchester chambered in .303 British at the thieves and then calling the police (the police had offered no help prior claiming a lack of evidence). In Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, Maureen Smith explains to Lazarus Long that