Packard Motor Car Company - Detroit, MI
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N 42° 22.692 W 083° 01.699
17T E 333014 N 4693761
You may not know the name Packard, but your parents will. They built the most luxurious cars of the first half of the 20th century. This factory has been abandoned for years, but still bears the Packard name.
Waymark Code: WM2P21
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2007
Views: 214
From the missing Michigan Historical Marker that used to be here:
The Packard Motor Car Company, which built Detroit's first, and for many years most prestigious, luxury cars, produced over 1.5 million vehicles on this site from 1903 to 1954. The factory complex, designed by Albert Kahn, included the city's first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction. At its opening, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world. In it skilled craftsmen practiced over eighty trades.
Product manufactured here: Luxury Automobiles
Address:
1580 Grand Boulevard East
Detroit, MI U.S.A.
48211
Web Page: [Web Link]
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