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.
View of spectators, including boy with bicycle, posing with Packard "Old Pacific" car during the 1903 Packard Transcontinental Tour. Handwritten on back: "Old Pacific was the center of attraction in this town during the summer of 1903 when it made a transcontinental automobile trip in 53 days, starting in San Francisco. This 1902 Packard was driven by Tom Fetch, Packard foreman and test engineer. Tours--Packard Transcontinental Tour, 1903."
Item #: na030806
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.
View of two men trying to dislodge Packard "Old Pacific" car from mud during the 1903 Packard Transcontinental Tour. Handwritten on back: "A fence rail serves as a lever, with leaves and brush packed under the wheels of Old Pacific to help it out of the mud on its historic cross-country run. Tours--Packard Transcontinental Tour, 1903."
Item #: na030807
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of James Ward Packard driving custom car. Handwritten on back: "Biography--Packard, James Ward. James Ward Packard, founder of Packard Motor Car Co., in special custom job around 1903."
Item #: na004138
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
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