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Packard was founded by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in Warren, Ohio, where 400 Packard automobiles were built at their factory on 408 Dana Street Northeast, from 1899 until 1903.
Model F (1901–1903): The Packard Model F was the last single-cylinder car made by the Packard Motor Company.It had some major advances, including a new 3-speed transmission.
The first four-cylinder equipped car was introduced as the 1903 Model K with rear entrance tonneau or King of Belgium tonneau body styles. [1] It introduced a number of firsts for the company, to include installing the engine in front of the passenger compartment and the radiator with a grille, with a four speed transmission using a 92 in (2,336.8 mm) wheelbase. [1]
The Packard Pacific is an automobile manufactured by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan for the 1954 model year. [4] It replaced the Mayfair and was sold exclusively as a two-door hardtop.
In the 1950s, Arbib painted two covers for Galaxy Science Fiction The second illustrated a novelette by Robert A. Heinlein. Richard Henry Arbib (September 1, 1917 in Gloversville, New York – February 22, 1995 in Manhattan, New York City [1]) was an American industrial designer.
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard (/ ˈ h juː l ɪ t ˈ p æ k ər d / HEW-lit PAK-ərd) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
This car introduced the independent front suspension to the Packard line. Its so-called "Safe-T-Flex" suspension was an unequal upper and lower A-arm type with the largest possible lower A-arm composed of two different arms bolted together at a ninety-degree angle.
The name Mayfair [4] was applied to the 1951–1953 Packard 250 as a hardtop coupe nameplate built by the Packard Motor Corporation in an attempt to compete in this body style with the Oldsmobile 98 Holiday, Buick Roadmaster Riviera, Lincoln Capri and Chrysler New Yorker Newport hardtop coupes.