That Packard Motor Car Company would offer such a car at all was decided by its flashy new president, James J. Nance, recruited by outgoing president Hugh Ferry to light a fire under an old-line automaker that seemed to have dozed through the early postwar years. (Road tester Tom McCahill...
Wikipedia Related to Packard:Studebaker,Packard Foundation,Packard Bell,Hewlett Packard Packard automobiles were first made by two Packard brothers in 1899. Packards continued to be made through 1958, although by then they were manufactured by the Studebaker-Packard Company. From 1903 through 1958, th...
The electric car and the burden of history: Studies in automotive systems rivalry in America, 1890--1996. This dissertation explores the path dependent process by which internal combustion emerged at the turn of the century as the automotive technological stand... DA Kirsch - Stanford University....
In 1940, the Packard Motor Car Company was the first U.S. auto manufacturer to offer air conditioning as a factory production option.Continue reading→ Packard’s Stand-Alone Brand: The 1956 Clipper Posted onFebruary 3, 2022byMCG For reasons that don’t make complete sense today, in 1956 ...
Packard: The Last Shift: Directed by Brian Kaufman. With Celeste Headlee. 'Packard: The Last Shift' tells the story of the Packard Plant, the once mighty home to the Packard Motor Car Company, which sits in the heart of the once mighty Detroit. Packard c
David lost a coin flip for naming the company, so they called it Hewlett-Packard. The rest, as they say, is history. There were some other interesting photos in the album. I find the following image to be a fascinating character study.What strikes me about this image is the complete ...
In the 1930’s General Motors’ superior financial resources saw Cadillac overtake Packard in the luxury car stakes. Packard diversified by producing a smaller more affordable model, the One Twenty, which increased the company’s sales.Packard struggled in the post-war world. The company merged ...
“I have serious doubts that the Hewlett-Packard Company would have survived if in the early years Bill and I had been required to spend our time filling out government forms and responding to bureaucratic demands. “This is a matter of very grave concern because this trend, if it continues...
“Job at GE paid $90 a month, janitor $.25/hour, gas 10 cents, suit $25, room and board $30, car $600-$700. “Japan had invaded China. No feeling that the U.S. was international “If someone had predicted in 1933 all of the exciting things that were going to happen in the ...
But America's Packard Museum on Ludlow Street is something different, and decidedly worthwhile: it is not a re-creation, but an authentic artifact of the history of the Packard Motor Car Company.EBSCO_AspNew York Times