Re: A CANADIAN-built Packard?!?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/12/17 15:18:40

No other manufacturing sites in the traditional sense for Packard other than Warren OH in the early years, Detroit, and Canada. Knock-down sites included the one already mentioned in Belgium in the very late post-war years (possibly only 1956), C. Dempers in South Africa, and no doubt many of the other foreign distributors such as Leonard Williams in London, Risch in Zurich, Kellow-Faulkiner in Melbourne etc. may have done similar partial limited assembly (attaching bumpers, etc.) but the extent of their activities is for our overseas buddies to comment on. Packard did have representation in nearly every major and most minor countries of the world from Albania to Yugoslavia and most everything in between. And probably what they had to do to prepare a car for delivery varied from place to place and time to time. But that's not really manufacturing or assembly from knock-down kits. Even in the US just pre- and post-WW II many cars were shipped to dealers minus bumpers and the like due to war-time shortages and those the dealers had more than the usual prep work to do at times.

Some good research into these activities would seem to be fertile ground for data-gathering and eventual publication.