Hornwrecker

From the people who brought you Detroit's Old Car Factories, here is a link to Car Dealerships in Detroit. Photo of interior of the Grosse Pointe Packard dealer on this page: page 2 Detroit's Dealers (Sorry for linking, too many things to put into one post.) Interior and exterior of Packard factory showroom, and listings from old phone book of all Packard dealers, in and around Detroit farther down the page: page 1 Detroit's dealers

Sorry, I had the wrong Paragon. I didn't see the date and posted info on the 1906 company that was in Detroit.

Here is a photo of an Everitt badge from the Smithsonian collection.

<span style="font-weight: bold">3Jakes</span>, East Grand Blvd was near the edge of the city limits when the Packard plant was built, it also had some of the grandest homes in the city on it, especially towards the river. To the north, and west of Packard it was heavy industrial that quickly filled in the land near the railroads. EGB is the only street in Detroit that follows its own numbering system, starting on each end from the river, and ending at each side of Woodward. Attached is a map (from the OCF thread page 1) that I marked the Packard factory (bright green), the former Briggs plant that Packard used in the 50s (red X ), some mystery Packard facility near the river (medium blue), and East Grand Blvd (purple). Wayne State would be to the west of the map, and a bit south of West Grand Blvd, and the GM and Fisher Bldg. I'd really like to see the Hupmobile, building sign. I just spent a lot of time researching the Hupp plants, so if you can email me a copy, maybe I can get it into the correct size for posting here, or host it somewhere.

Thanks twinfour, nice to know when. Attached is an aerial photo that I know is from 1949, a bit difficult to make out the details in this size, but will help guide any who wish to explore. Supposedly, the historic marker that was in front of the offices is now located inside of a nearby old school building, currently privately owned. The ex-Emma Thomas Elementary on Concord near E. Grand Blvd. Another place to visit is the old Ford factory on Piquette, now a museum. This is very near the old E.M.F/Studebaker #1 factory that recently burned down. Too bad the Detroit Historical Museum's extensive car collection is not on display; no money to properly display it or enough room, so it sits in various warehouses.

The cemetery is the German Lutheran Cemetery. The attachment is an aerial view from WSU archives probably taken in the 1930s. I haven't had time to label the streets yet, and haven't a clue as to which building did what and how they were named or numbered yet. If anyone knows...

Funny, I live about six miles from the Packard factory, and I can't remember the last time I drove by it. When I went to college at Wayne State, some of my short cuts used to go either by the Plymouth Lynch Road Assembly and the Hupmobile Factory, the Packard Factory, or Dodge Main. All are now either gone or closed. Here is another website with more relatively current photos of Packard: More Packard Factory photos

Thanks for the address <span style="font-weight: bold">marontar</span>. Another entry into the parts supplier section of the Detroit, old car factory database.

Here are a couple of links showing the current state of the Packard factory. Packard factory 2000 Packard factory 2002 There are a few other Detroit abandoned building sites on the web that show the Packard plants. (If I get some time I'll do up a couple of aerial photos showing the extant of the Packard facilities from around fifty years ago. I'm trying to research and eventually show on these photos, the expansion of the plant over time.)

Here's a really early photo of the Packard plant showing the addition of two floors to the original construction. This photo is from the Library of Congress, in really bad shape, and has been enhanced to bring out some of the details.

IIRC the Packard Powerhouse was the part that was illegally demoed. Attached is photo of it. Almost all of the rest of it is still there, but deteriorating fast. <span style="font-weight: bold">MrPushbutton</span>, I've been slowly squirreling away Packard plant pics for the OCF thread, and when they reach critical mass I'll post them. I'm in the middle of doing an index of the thread, but the Sanborn fire insurance maps of Packard are located at: Page 8 Old Car Factory Thread

To me, it looks like an updated version of a Studebaker Lark convertible,... and that's a good thing.

I found this 1943 Chrysler ad featuring an aircraft tow tractor, maybe it's in a Hobart.

No problem <span style="font-weight: bold">oldefar</span>, I'm intrigued by a restoring any oddball piece of machinery. If you can find the model number of it, we can narrow the search some more. Photos? Now if you could find one of the old hemi-powered air raid sirens to go with it. Somewhere on the internet there is a website that shows the restoration of one, and I think there is an audio file of it too.

The only Q's that show up on a list that I have are: Queen?1905 Quick?1900 Quinlan?1904 The only marque that I've heard of before is Queen, so I don't have a clue on the other ones. Better than nothing, I guess.

They still make them. A quick google search turned up this link Hobart Ground Power Search for hobart+tractor+aircraft turned up 37,200 hits. Having the model number should help narrow it down a bit. I'm not sure if this is the same company who makes welders and industrial mixers, but you could try looking for that. They may have also made these for various air forces so some military equipment sites may have some info. Hope that helps you start finding info.

Searching around the NYPL site, there's another photo gallery of mostly GM cars and trucks, but a couple of 30s Chrysler, Desoto photos too. Also a lot of early Cadillac photos. NYPL GM photo album

Link to 1909 Herreshoff catalog in the NYPL. 1909 Herreshoff catalog. I also found a mention that Herreshoff-Detroit became Herreshoff-Troy in 1914. The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library has a 1912 catalog in their collection. Titled "Herreshoff "Winners by land and sea" 1912" If you find anything of their history, I would appreciate if you could post some of it here.

Here is a link to a web site with a lot of Paige history, including the Jewett. Paige History Quoting from the site: <span style="font-style: italic"> More news from Paige during 1922 was the announcement of a totally new, low-priced, six-cylinder car, named for founder and president Harry M. Jewett. Information was given to Paige dealers during the New York Show in January. Features of the new Jewett included: 112 inch wheelbase; 50 HP six-cylinder motor; drum-type headlights with nickel trim; glass rear window; and door-opening side curtains. The initial model was a touring car for five. A sedan went into production by the end of April:</span>

The only information that I have so far on Herreshoff was that it had a factory in Detroit from 1908-1914 at Harper and Dequindre. It was housed in the former Thomas-Detroit factory which was the former Modern Match Co building. Rumors of another location on Woodward Ave., but no confirmation of that yet. This info is mostly from "How Detroit Became the Automobile Capital" by Richard Szudarek. I'll post your question to the Detroit Old Car Factory Thread, and see if anyone there has any more information for you. We haven't checked yet to see what became of this factory, or if it even still exists.

Kelsey Wheel, later Kelsey-Hayes, 3600 Military, Detroit, MI, was one of many automotive ventures by H.J. Hayes. The company was recently bought out by the current iteration of the old Massey-Ferguson tractor company, still in the auto parts business. A few of the old buildings are still standing, unlike the Hupp factories. More info on Hayes can be found at Coachbuilt page on Hayes.

Here's the photo if anyone wants it. I've got some good aerials of the main plant on East Grand Blvd, but don't know any of the building numbers or names of them. I'll start a thread here on them when I get around to Photoshopping them to a usable size, and maybe you all can help me identify what is what, before posting in the OCF thread. On that thread I posted an old map from the 20s showing a Packard facility near the Chalmers factory on East Jefferson. Does anyone know what this was?

Thanks,from a participant in that thread, and the finder of the aerial photo of the Briggs/Packard plant. If you want to try and find something in the OCF web behemoth, use the forum search link, and search for the automaker and add factory or OCF. Detroit YES Forum search. I do take requests, so if you're looking for an OCF in Detroit, let me know. Email in profile. We found the trunk maker from someone here asking, and all of the new King info. The database of factories is approaching 375 entries, and will certainly top 400 when I catch up with the new info. I'll eventually post it here when (if?) it is finalized .

The only thing that I can find on them is that they were made from 1914-1926. An ad found on the web is the only other thing worthwhile. Scranton Republican 1916 Click on the MACCAR/VIM trucks link at the top.

Here is another one that will take some searching around on, but if you search for "automobile", quite a few early photos of the marking of the Lincoln Highway show up, as well as a few others. Bentley Historical Library UoM