Re: Post war production numbers

Posted by Stephen Houseknecht On 2011/3/29 21:37:06

O_D, I have been under the impression that Packard kept extremely detailed records of their production and that a lot of the records were simply destroyed by Curtiss-Wright when they came in 1956. The same thing was supposed to have happened with saved spare parts inventory that was allegedly dumped into the Detroit River.

A couple of years ago I wrote article for the Geneseo Air Show program on Curtiss-Wright and the P-40. Curtiss-Wright was owned by a holding company called North American Aviation, which in turn was owned by General Motors who also purchased Allison around 1934-35. Give me a day or so to find the file and/or program and I can either post the paragraphs regarding GM's controlling interests if anyone else is interested or send it to you if you are interested.

Also curious was the timing of all of this while Allison was assigned the J33 jet engine v. GE Packard J49 cancellation by Mistah Wilson.