Re: Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates
Ralph W. Brown
Hi Garth,
Some, perhaps most, automobiles were shipped as “kits” circa 1905.
Nice shot of the truck. Too bad we can’t see more of the
boxcars.
Pax,
Ralph
Brown
Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com
From: Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 2:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Loading Packard Automobile
Crates Bob,
Unless those crates contain spare parts, or are part of a "kit", they are
far too small for a whole car.
In the early days before Evans racks, autos were sometimes shipped in
crates (via freight cars; mandatory content). I wonder if this continued into
later times for overseas shipments. Recently I was watching a Smithsonian
channel documentary on the Raj in India. One of the sahibs had a very nice
Packard auto, pretty much a luxury car for the time. Would this have been crated
for shipment? I suspect so.
I owe my life to a 1948 Packard semi-limo my father bought used around
1954. We were rear-ended while stopped by a drunk driver in a Cadillac the
police estimated was going well over 60 miles an hour. Our car went airborne,
and was thrown all the way across a 4-lane intersection. We all had minor
injuries, but my father was able to nurse the car the ten or so miles to our
home. The Caddie was winched up onto a flatbed and hauled off to the junkyard.
My father immediately bought another used Packard. Those autos were built like
the tanks Packard engines powered during the war.
But I digress.
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff 🦆 On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:59 PM Bob Chaparro via
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