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Can any one tell me when Packard started to manufacture in Canada? Was a historical record of the senior management ever kept?

Gord

Gord,

Some info and links that may be helpful,

Dave

thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v010/p0101-p0116.pdf

blogs.windsorstar.com/2010/06/11/packard-motor-car-company-of-canada/

windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/wow/plants/packard.htm

ctmhv.com/The_Museum/auto_museum.htm

The following auto manufacturers produced vehicles in southwestern Ontario during the 20th century and before:

1899 to 1902 - National Cycle and Auto Company Ltd
1904 to present - Ford Motor Company
1904 to 1923 - W. E. Seagrve (Fire Engines)
1908 to 1909 - Menard Auto Buggy
1910 to 1920 - Menard Motor Truck
1908 to 1912 - E-M-F
1912 to 1936 - Studebaker
1910 to 1915 - Dominion Motors Ltd
1910 to 1912 - Regal Motor Car Company
1910 to 1914 - Gramm Motor Truck
1911 to 1933 - Canadian Commercial Car Ltd
1911 to 1914 - Hupp Motor Co of Canada (and 1933 to 1936)
1912 to 1914 - Canadian Two-In-One Auto Co. Amherstburg
1912 to 1915 - Tate Electric Ltd
1916 to 1925 - Chalmers Motor Car Co
1916 to 1925 - Maxwell Motor Co
1925 to present - Chrysler Canada Ltd (bought Chalmers and Maxwell)
1920 to 1924 - Dodge Brothers Canada Ltd
1920 to 1921 - Stansell Motors Amherstburg
1922 to 1928 - REO Motor Car co of Canada Ltd
1923 to 1929 - Gotfredson Truck Corp
1928 to 1936 - Pierce Arrow Corp of Canada
1930 to present - General Motors of Canada Ltd
1931 to 1935 - Graham Paige Motors Canada Ltd
1931 to 1941 - Packard Motor Car Co of Canada
1932 to 1938 - Hudson Motor Car Co of Canada Ltd (and 1950 to 1954)
1948 to 1990 - Wayne Canada/Welles Corp (School Buses)
1955 to 1970 - Kaiser-Willys

Well-known factory photo, first Canadian-produced Packard. Most principal officers & directors and listed in the company's annual reports.

In other discussions on this forum about Canadian production I've posted a copy of an article from a 1937 issue of the Canadian Auto Trader which gives quite a bit of info about the Canadian sourced parts which had to reach a certain miniumum of content in order to avoid the import duty into England and the rest of the UK. RHD cars for the UK were made in the Canadian plant up until it closed for WW II in 1939; RDH cars for other RHD countries were made in Detroit, and Canada also produced quite a large number of LHD cars for the US, mostly junior models. Search around and you should find the article, if not I can post it again.

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G'day Gord,
to PackardInfo. I invite you to include your Packard, presumably it would be a Canadian built one, in the Packard Owner's Registry here on PackardInfo.