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A Short history of the Packard Company
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The Packard story begins in the 1820s shortly after the establishment of Warren as the "capitol of the Connecticut Western Reserve" - the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio.
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 the
Packard family of two sons and three daughters was growing up.
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, Ohio 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.
One of the early cars, the 1903 Model F, was sent out on a transcontinental journey that year to test and market the durability of the Packard Motor Car in a trip from California to New York City. The famous endurance run of this car, dubbed "Old Pacific", was recreated in 1983. The "Old Pacific" along with an exhibit of Packard Motor Car memorabilia, is on display at the Packard Museum in museum.
In 1911 the Packard success story led their home town of Warren in becoming the first city in the United States to light its streets with incandescent bulbs.
The Packard Electric Company made incandescent bulbs and other electrical products. With the building of the Packard Motor Car came the necessity of developing an improved electrical system for the automobile. The production of high quality Packard cable became a dominant part of the Packard brothers' operation.
Packard Electric became a division of General
Motors Corporation in 1932 and is known today as Delphi Packard Electric
Systems. From those early days as the leader in producing vehicle wiring
systems, Delphi Packard Electric has built and maintained global recognition
for excellence in this field.
1903 Packard Model F
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