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...lowered from 4.9-to-1 to 4.6-to-1 to give greater ground speed with less engine speed. A "slender profile" radiator has been added. Prices not yet announced. Plymouth. New body styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies...
...Salon, fresh from Chicago. When the week in Manhattan was over, 225 cars had been sold, $1,950,000 taken in. a new record. Throngs gathered to be bedazzled by luxurious displays, to inspect innovations. Most of the exhibitors were not motor-makers, but famed builders of customs bodies. Packard displayed one of its own bodies, but Derham. Dietrich, Le Baron, Rollstdn and Waterhouse also displayed bodies on Packard chassis...
...only die at the last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets); and you don't die there either. As soon as anyone has breathed his last, he is immediately driven off very fast in a Packard to the funeral parlor, where he is laid out and painted up. So, if ever you see a very restful, very pink face in New York, it belongs to a corpse...
...Copeland '69, 1c.; E. H. Learned '26, l.t.; J. C. Packard, l.g.; John Pollard, c.; L. F. Dill r.g.; J. C. Baker '23, r.g.; A. S. Dewoy, r.g.; Madison Sayles '27; S. T. Foster, l.h.b.; J. B. Knight '25, r h b; P. K. McElroy...
...Benson, Dorchester; C. H. Bruce, Somerville; E. A. Chandler, Arlington; F. DerYuen, Charlotte, N. Caro.; P. M. Essig, Chicago, Ill.; R. H. Packard, Salem; F. W. Roberts, New Monmouth, N. Y.; Michael Saparoff, Somerville; H. B. Slade, New Britain, Conn.; C. U. Stevens, Melrose; G. R. Wahl, East Keansburg...