Re: Robert's 56 Patrician

Posted by Leeedy On 2022/3/19 17:39:53
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HH56 wrote:
As is mentioned in some of the descriptions of the compensator, to keep development costs low they used a stock Autolite generator as the starting item. There is a brief mention of using a generator in the SAE article and more details of what was changed in another article. The case and end was used as is so would have the regular stamped A & F labels but then received different windings. The rest of the conversion consisted of a modified armature and a new front end casting for the armature support and mount to the compensator.


Understood about the compensator motor. And known.

I have seen and owned a lot of 1956 Packards over the years. However, I have seen only one of these manual suspension controls in a 1956 Packard. One. And the one I saw basically amounted to an additional power antenna switch mounted vertically under the left-hand side of the instrument panel with a Clipper-style knob attached to it. The operation was the same as the power antenna: push... the suspension went up; pull down, the suspension went down. The switch I used was indeed spring-loaded and defaulted to a center position of "off."

I have the original Packard Service Counselor issue from when this control was introduced. However, this manual control as far as I know was only introduced as a dealer-installed accessory kit. Optional, at extra cost and at the customer's request. Not as standard equipment. S-P was bleeding red at that point and certainly in no position financially or labor-wise to add another line-installed component. They were already having line problems at Conner as it was. I have no information indicating this kit was a line-installed component at Conner.

So. Is there someplace where the company actually says this kit was factory-installed?? Thanks.

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