During World War Two, Packard introduced American mass production techniques for the manufacture of the British Rolls-Royce V-1650 Merlin inline aircraft engine. Rolls-Royce-built engines were hand built and parts hand fitted, making each one different and the parts not interchangeable. Packard used...
This building located on the north east corner of the complex was added during WWII for final assembly of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. The Plant at its apex and also the end. The Present: The Packard plant still stands today, dilapidated, defiled, ignored and crumbling with the passing of...