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55Packardconv wrote:
Steve, my file "keeping" is notorious, but I know I have all my past issues of TPC, I can try scanning it for you (if I can find it!). I enjoy learning about "what happened where" in the Packard facilities, so if this would help further research and understanding, then I'd be happy to help. Send me a PM (private message) to keep reminding me, and/or to give me an email address where I can send the page images directly.
Owen_Dyneto, is this the logo we would look for on our engine blocks? I saw it on a piece of Lakey Foundry letterhead, looks like a centerline mark!
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I wonder of the 1954 sale of the foundry site was prompted by an unwillingness/inability to invest in upgrades needed to produce the V8 block, or by a cut-off from the electricity, steam, and compressed air produced by the Packard power plant <em>(I imagine that the utility tunnel from the Boulevard to the foundry was cut-off by the I-94 dig)</em>, or some combination?
If I am seeing this photo correctly, the area referred to is north of Harper Avenue. There were many things going on in this area over the years. Of course during Packard's operation at East Grand Blvd. the Edsel Ford Expressway certainly was not completed along this area. So whatever was going on with I-94 (I don't think it was even called by that name at the time) was not affecting Packard. In fact, Edsel Ford Expressway at one point only made it as far eastbound as Mt. Elliot and this was at least 1957. Of course, by that late date any consequence with Packard was a non-issue.
By the way,
when the East Grand Blvd. plant ceased to function, the power plant was one of the first structures that was torn down and replaced by an A&P supermarket. So if anything affected power and steam supplied by the plant, it was the plant itself being gone.
I-94 construction went very slow for very long. I well remember that the expressway ended eastbound shortly after crossing the John Lodge. After that, It first ended at the street where Farm Crest Bakery building was located. This was due to a huge bridge that had to be constructed over a giant cluster of railroad tracks.
Then it was extended to Mt. Elliot, near the Packard Plant. The ditch they had to dig to get the expressway past EGB was another colossal effort and required shortening of the Packard Plant, whacking of the parking lots, and elimination of much of Harper Avenue.
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