Re: Packard company name.

Posted by ECAnthony On 2013/8/24 11:02:24

That's a different company. The Ohio Automobile Company was formed in 1900 to build Packard automobiles. The name was changed to Packard Motor Car Company in 1902. PMCC moved to Detroit in 1903.

The Packard Electric company remained in Warren, Ohio. After the deaths of William and James Packard, PE was sold to General Motors around 1928.

And, PMCC =never= went out of business. They just stopped building automobiles. PMCC purchased the Studebaker Corporation 1954 (they called it a "merger), changing the name to the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. In 1962, the name was changed to the Studebaker Corporation; they were still the same surviving company. In later years the company merged with Worthington (becoming Studebaker-Worthington), and later merged with Wagner Electric.

For more information about the later attempts to revise the Packard name and car, read "Packard -- A History of the Motor Car and the Company, 1959 to 2008" in The Packard Cormorant #131.