Packard

Also known as Packard Motor Car Company

thumb|Packard plant (1903) Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was an American luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Packards were built in South Bend, Indiana, in 1958.

Key facts

Company.name: Packard
Company.former_names: Packard Motor Car Company
Company.logo: Packard automobile textlogo.png
Company.logo_size: 200
Company.type: Private (1899–1956)
Company.fate: Merged with Studebaker to form Studebaker-Packard in 1954; 'Packard' brand name dropped in 1962
Company.successor: Studebaker-Packard
Company.foundation: 1899
Company.founders: James Ward PackardWilliam Doud PackardGeorge Lewis Weiss
Company.location: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Company.key_people: Henry B. Joy
Company.industry: Automotive
Company.products: Automobiles

via Wikipedia infobox

~53 min read

Encyclopedic overview

24 sections

Contents

History
1899–1905
1906–1930
1931–1936
1937–1941
1942–1945
1946–1956
Studebaker-Packard Corporation
1957–1958
Concept Packards
Astral
The end
Aborted revival
Packard engines
Automobile
Other Packard engines
Packard automobile models
Packard show cars
Packard tradenames
Advertisements
Legacy
See also
References
External links

One of the "Three Ps" – alongside Peerless Motor Company and Pierce-Arrow – the company was known for building high-quality luxury automobiles before World War II. Owning a Packard was considered prestigious, and surviving examples are often found in museums and automobile collections.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Packard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.