Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in Detroit where Packards are made, President Alvan Macauley of the Packard Motor Car Co. wrote a letter to stockholders. He wanted to tell them that Packard is Packard, that it performs with distinction for distinctive individuals, that it will always do so. Wall Street, inspired by the Chrysler-Dodge merger, had been talking about more mergers and Packard had been mentioned. Here is what President Macauley wrote...
...personnel of the company from the beginning was made up of men who knew and loved fine things, mechanically and artistically, so the company was born to occupy the fine car field...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward
Ford Sued. The Packard Motor Car Co. and the Wire Wheel Corp. of America last week filed suit against the Ford Motor Co., charging that the demountable wire wheel used on the new Ford is an infringement of the Cowles patent which Packard and Wire Wheel control. Fourteen years ago, one Edward T. Cowles of Warren, Ohio, sold this patent to Packard for a reported...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The board of directors of the Studebaker Corp. were to meet at South Bend, Ind., to consider a merger with the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car...