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These may well be from the Packard Electric in Warren, OH and not from the car company at all.
Not really. Although
Packard Electric DID use a script as their trademarked logo, it was of a slightly different style than what PMCC used.
See the JPEG image in
this post from
JW, in another thread. Notice that the tail of the letter "d" trails of as a simple straight line, rather than with a tailfin. Look more closely and you'll also see that the head of the "P" is different, smaller.
If you look at the script used on all of these other products/suppliers, you'll also find variations from the scripts used by PMCC - with good reason.
I'm no lawyer, but I believe that you cannot simply trademark a word that has been in common use - including a proper noun like a family name - UNLESS it is executed in a unique design, and that design must be included as part of the trademark application.
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