8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1903 Packard Model F with six men in front of brick building. Inscribed on photo back; 1-cylinder, 12-horsepower, 88-inch wheelbase, 2-person roadster 'Old Pacific.' 'Tom Fetch's visit and 'Old Pacific.' Second from left, Frank H. McKinney, director of advertising & sales promotion. This model participated in the transcontinental crossing June 20th thru August 21st, 1903 from San Francisco to New York, driver was E.T. (Tom) Fetch, passenger/photographer Marius C. Krarup editor of The Automobile, rear deck passenger (Reno to Colorado Springs only), N.O. Allyn and in the First Annual Endurance Contest of the NAAM from New York to Pittsburgh 7-15th of October, 1903 as contestant #16 class D, driver E.T. Fetch and observer C.H. Lowe.
Item # EB01c067
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
8x10 black and white sepia-toned photograph of the inside of the Packard plant in Warren, Ohio showing several male workers and the partially completed chassis of the Packard Model F, 88-inch wheelbase. Inscribed on photo back; probably photographed in 'new brick building' completed in Jan. 1903, Warren, Ohio facility of Packard Motor Car Co.
Item # EB01c050
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
8x10 black and white photograph from glass negative of 1903 Packard Model K on snowy road with houses in background. Inscribed on photo back; 4-cylinder, 24-horsepower, 92-inch wheelbase, 5-person rear-entrance tonneau. Other sources describe as 25-horsepower and 91-inch wheelbase.
Item # EB01c051
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
8x10 black and white photograph copied from glass negative of 1903 Packard Model K bare chassis. Inscribed on photo back; 4-cylinder, 24-horsepower, 92-inch wheelbase. Photographed at the Packard plant, Warren, Ohio plant with two-story wooden building in the background. This was the first 4-cylinder car that Packard made, cost $7000, were approximately 7 built and the Gray Wolf used this engine.
Item # EB01c058
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
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