LAST PACKARD MOTOR CAR
PRODUCED
JUNE 25, 1956
The last Packard, a
classic American luxury car, “Ask the Man Who Owns One', rolld
off the production line in Detroit, Michigan , on this day.
Brothers, James Ward
Packard and William Dowd Packard, both mechanical engineers, built
their first automobile, a buggy type vehicle with a single cylinder
engine, in Warren, Ohio in 1899.
The Packard Motor Company
went on to earn fame early on for a four cylinder speedster by name
of
The “Grey Wolf”, in
1904.
The 1916 “”Twin Six”
Packard, with a V-12 engine, established itself as the leading
luxury car
manufacture of the country.
Wotld War I saw Packard
convert to war production earlier than most companies and the “Twin
Six” was adapted into the “Liberty” aircraft engine which was
by far the most important single output of America's wartime
industry.
The large square body and
hand finished attention to detail of Packard suggested elegant
solidity .
World War II halted
consumer car production and post war Packard struggled with Cadiliac
and it's V-16 engine.
In 1950, with dwindling
sale, Packard merged with Studebaker and this company became the
fourth largest car manufacturer in the nation. Eventually they failed
to achieve sufficient sales and discontinued build automobiles on
June 25, 1956.
Source:
www.history.com/this-day-in-history
June 25 2017 /abstract Harrison
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