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HH56 wrote:
Several of the more knowledgeable here and in some of the books have said there was a large storage yard and rework area for cars coming off the line either missing something or needing some fine tuning or finish work before they could be shipped. The cars remained there until they could be completed. Apparently the area was particularly well used and full with all the body fit issues on the early 55 models but perhaps there were some out of stock pieces that missed being installed when your car went down the line. What kind of items had a late date?
September is a more accurate date. I recall when they were moving things from Grand Blvd. to Conner Avenue a large flatbed transport got stuck making the turn at East Forest Ave. and McClellan... and this was in the fall.
Any urgent issues that came up upon assembly with 1955-56 Packards were not handled at Grand Boulevard unless there was some very unusual reason. They were handled at a special building set aside for this purpose off of Conner Avenue.
The large storage lot at the corner of Mt. Elliott and East Grand Blvd. was there primarily for shipping preparation and storage of production backlog. Cars that had been prepped here were shipped out either by truck or train. Cars that went to big distributors like Earle C. Anthony usually skipped this step and went straight to the distributor (if said distributor was of significant size to do their own dealer prep work). In such a case, the 1955-56 Packards left directly from Conner Avenue and went to major distributors.
But if a car wouldn't start or the suspension was doing the herky-jerkey and hokey-pokey or the doors wouldn't open or close, such a car would go to the refit/countermeasure building just south off of Conner.
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