Re: Dealer List

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2009/8/14 14:11:20

Looks good. I'm assuming you didn't have to type in each entry? Did you mean for me to scan each page here into .pdf and forward them to you, or just forward the paper file?

The only thing I note again is that the spreadsheet doesn't reflect that all those dealers were under the Mack distributorship, but perhaps that's too much complexity to undertake. Responding to Brians's question, just as the dealerships themselves were dynamic and constantly changing over time, there were regular changes in the factory branch/dealership arrangement and organization and I don't know if anyone really has a real handle on this over the span of years, I certainly don't. But for my part, I'd rather just see the individual pages as Packard published them, rather than see it loose that element of context. Yes, folks might have to view several pages before finding the city of interest, but the relationships are kept intact. Put the list up as it's printed, for 1939, with an index perhaps to the controlling city branches or distributorships; if you get another list from another year, put that one up similarly as a folder with an index.

Those are my thoughts anyway, pending what I hear from Ken Chapman.