49 Packard Survived

From the Packard Museum: The Packard Story begins in the 1820s shortly after the establishment of Warren as the capital of the Connecticut Western... more

by Bobbee Rickard

Title

49 Packard Survived

Artist

Bobbee Rickard

Medium

Digital Art

Description

From the Packard Museum: The Packard Story begins in the 1820s shortly after the establishment of Warren as the "capital of the Connecticut Western Reserve."

Warren Packard, son of Lordstown's first postmaster William Packard, came to the village of Warren in the 1850s just as an era of new business and industrial growth was underway. Hardware stores, lumber and planing mills, hotels, and an iron/rolling mill manufactory all soon carried the Packard banner during the years that Packard and his wife raising their two sons and three daughters.

The sons, William Doud Packard and James Ward Packard, put their college training and business experience to practical use with the establishment of the Packard Electric Company in 1890, the year Warren entered the "age of electricity."

The first Packard Motor Car was built in Warren in 1899 at the Packard Electric Company's subsidiary plant, the New York and Ohio Company. Manufacture of a successful automobile brought about the formation of the Ohio Automobile Company, which evolved into the Packard Motor Car Company in 1902.

The Packard was known for its smooth ride, and this 1949 Packard is no different. It has survived the hands of time and made it to current times in good condition, non restored, all original down to its black and shiny paint. A [photograph taken after its long trip from the midwest to Nevada where it now makes its home attending car shows.

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June 6th, 2013