Re: Packard plant layout

Posted by Leeedy On 2015/9/15 22:24:53

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Yes, I know this fact very well. I drove past the Packard Plant in the 1940s-50s-60s all the time with my dad for many, many years. All the time. Sometimes daily. My dad owned commercial property on Mt. Elliot, just a few blocks from here. So I very well know how big the plant was.

At one point in time, the eastbound Edsel Ford Expressway ended here (westbound started here). And if you were traveling across town and no longer wanted to use the old antiquated route of Grand Blvd, you jogged north from the Boulevard on Mt. Elliot to get onto the hot new expressway!

This is the uncropped version of the same photo shown earlier. But the plant still extended farther south (past the top of this photo) and farther north past the bottom of this photo. If you look to the right of the houses in the lower part of the photo you will see buildings leading to the foundry areas and other parts of the plant that do not exist today and which have long been forgotten.

And again, before we go back into the same territory that another thread covered a few months ago, note the lot with cars in it on the upper right of this photo. This lot was Packard Nu-Car Driveaway where new Packards were stored and loaded on trucks to be shipped. It is also where the Nu-Car Driveaway office was located on the Mt. Elliot side. This had nothing at all to do with individual customer driveaway programs. Nor was it where a customer would take factory delivery.