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Howard, let's talk about the chicken-and-egg problem.

rhlevine, according to the regular production options valid for your 1952 Packard 300 (which can be found on its production slip taped to upper side of glove box dust shield) the official Packard abbreviation for the birdlike hood ornament was "PE".

PErmorant, PEan or ... ? What do you think?

Below a pic including description from the 1952 (25th Series) Packard Owners Manual. I don't know who claims the interpretational sovereignty nowadays but its editor and publisher in 1952 has been the Packard Motor Car Company.

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The best things come in threes - excerpt from the 51-54 service manual. One cannot rule out the possibility that the radiator mascot of your car embodies a cormorant, a swan or even a penguin with giraffe's neck but it appears less likely.

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I guess the cormorant died with the Bathtub.

The defining factor must be: cormorant, wings up, pelican, wings back.

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I'm glad that we have the cormorant; for they are sleek, stately and ever efficient in manner (as seen in first picture). As I think of it, those are characteristics that describe our Packards too.

As an aside, being a man who is fascinated by hummingbirds, I'm sure glad history didn't select them to represent our marque because they would be very hard to see at 60 mph!

(Yes, those pictures are of my hand holding a Rufous, Magnificent and broad-tailed hummingbirds. All birds are male.)

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That fact would seem to make them an exceedingly endangered species. Or did you mean just the birds in the pictures?

Well, you know what they say .....

"A bird in the hand is worth ....."