Re: Synopsis of forces and events leading to '48-'50 styling

Posted by HH56 On 2020/3/18 14:08:18
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The company invested a boatload in those presses for 1938, surely the equipment hadn't become obsolete 7 short years later.


Don't know about obsolete but I think it might have been Ward's book that mentioned when Packard revamped for war production they did move a lot of tooling and production machinery outside and let it sit relatively unprotected during the war. Perhaps it was not obsolete but more the equipment was considered aging and was damaged enough to not warrant investing a lot more money to fix it when there was a less costly alternative that could be ready for postwar production sooner.

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