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PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY. Packard was founded by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in the city of Warren, Ohio, where 400 Packard automobiles were built at their factory on Dana Street Northeast, from 1899 to 1903. A mechanical engineer, James Packard believed they could build a better horseless carriage than the Winton cars owned by Weiss, an important Winton stockholder, after Packard complained to Alexander Winton and offered suggestions for improvement, which were ignored; Packard's first car was built in Warren, Ohio, on November 6, 1899. (1)
Studebaker-Packard pulled the Packard nameplate from the marketplace in 1959. It kept its name until 1962 when "Packard" was dropped off the corporation's name. In the late 1990s, Roy Gullickson revived the Packard nameplate by buying the trademark and building a prototype Packard Twelve for the 1999 model year. His goal was to produce 2,000 cars per year, but lack of investment funds stalled that plan indefinitely; the Twelve was sold at an auto auction in Plymouth, Michigan, in July 2014 for $143,000. (2)
The 1918 Dubuque and East Dubuque City Directory and 1922 telephone directory listed 932 Clay.
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1. "Packard,"Wikipedia. Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard