Re: Earliest known surviving Packard

Posted by ECAnthony On 2015/1/14 21:37:06

Mr. James Ward Packard donated $1,000,000. to Lehigh Uni. for an engineering laboratory around 1927. He died in 1928. It was the Packard Motor Car Company that donated the 1899 Packard to Lehigh in 1930. As first proposed, PMCC would "lend" the 1899 to Lehigh, but the school wanted complete ownership. So, PMCC agreed, with the provision that the company could borrow it when it wanted to - which it did in 1946 and 1949.