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According to reports, Packard had the electric in '56 and appears was fraught with gremlins and pulled.
PB system was not pulled and was available on all 56 production. It was even planned for the 57s but with some improvements.
Several Packard historians have stated in books and articles that even though it was a first generation device with bugs it was largely successful. Again, it would be nice to know whose engineers did what because other articles mention Packard was disappointed in the implementation and felt that the Autolite work was somewhat lacking in design and build quality -- possibly due to the short lead time and lack of testing before being rushed into production -- but still disappointed.
Still other writers have speculated that overall quality was lacking because Autolite was also paying heed to rumors in the auto industry that Packard was all but finished and it was a short term deal because they would not be getting more business. Probably some truth to that as Autolite was reported to have destroyed some critical tooling shortly after Packard closed. Stude could not even order a stock of service parts because the tooling was gone.
The basic design of the unit lived on with many of the initial issues resolved or improved upon in the followup version used in the Edsel.
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