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Packard
Sign in to savethumb|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
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Article
24 sectionsContents
- 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
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.
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.