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I don't know much about Packard trucks, but I ran across this photo on www.shorpy.com

More specifically:
shorpy.com/node/10308?size=_original

It is 1910 and several tourist buses are lining up near the Tuller Hotel in downtown Detroit. I cropped the photo to zoom in on three buses - two of which look to have the distinctive Packard radiator shape. Do I have this right? Thanks, --Roger--

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Roger

Yes. Packard made trucks until about 1923 when the market was weak because of WWI surplus and the need of space for car production.
There was a Packard bus at the Centennial, but I didn't ride in it as I was on heavy sensory overload.

The Packard truck business is covered well in the Kimes book, which is available again.

Regards

John Harley

Roger, the biggest of all Kevin's aka BigKev collected a couple of them in the photo archive, even an electric driven bus.