Re: Photo of a Henney flower car from my collection

Posted by HH56 On 2024/2/12 18:32:42
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Packard Don wrote:
That might be George Hamlin’s car but if not, he has one like it. George runs the virtual Henney chapter of the Professional Car Society of which I am a member. I only ever saw one once myself and that was in Fresno, CA for a meet between Northern California and the Southern California chapters of PAC (Fresno is more or less midway). I drove my 1952 Henney-Packard Nu-3-Way for the several-day event.

The compartment underneath did have rollers in the floor and could carry the casket during a funeral but typically it was not used for that purpose. The rollers were primarily for picking up the casket from the maker when a service car was not available. Per the other post, a service car is like the panel truck or sedan delivery of the funeral industry without side windows (other than the front doors, of curse) and was a utility vehicle. My 1951 USAF ambulance was based on a service car body.


Don, there was a 22-23 series flower car down here around that early to mid 80s time and might have been the one you saw. It was shown at the Fresno Concours once or twice and I think it was at a joint meet in Hanford sponsored by San Joaquin Packards. As I recall it was owned by a fellow with last name of Bartell who lived in Kingsburg, CA. It was sold I think by the late 80s when he thinned his collection but no idea where it went.

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