Re: Wanted to say hello

Posted by John Harley On 2010/4/23 18:42:25

Guscha

Now you've started...

When I was in Warren last summer, someone, maybe Terry Martin, told me this about Ward Packard. J.W. Packard is always called 'Ward" in Warren.

After Packard moved to Detroit, bicycles had become passe. Ward took to tooling around on motorcycles. You've seen pictures of him, he was 5 feet tall, maybe 5'1". (Owen or somebody will do the metric conversion for you). He was short...

He wrote Harley Davidson (NO REALATION to me!) and asked if they would custom make a motorcycle with a smaller frame. Harley Davidson (NO RELATION!), obviously oblivious to Ward's dissatisfaction with other vehicle manufacturers, told him no.

The British, on the other hand, were only to happy to tailor make a bike for him, so he rode British bikes for the rest of his life. I seem to remember that they were Brough Superiors, but I'm hazy on that part

Regards


John Harley