Packard 840 Boattail Cabriolet Bohman & Schwartz

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Company Packard (1899-1958) was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of State of Indiana. The Studebaker-Packard Corporation (1954-1962) was the entity created by the purchase of the Studebaker Corporation of Indiana, by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. While Studebaker was the larger of the two companies, Packard's balance sheet and executive team were stronger than that of the Studebaker company. In 1962, Studebaker-Packard reverted its name to Studebaker. The following year the plant in Indiana was closed, while its Canadian plant in Hamilton continued to produce Studebaker cars until 1966. Packard was founded by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in state of Ohio. James Ward Packard (1863-1928) was an American automobile manufacturer who founded the Packard Motor Car Company and Packard Electric Company with his brother William Doud Packard. William Doud Packard (1861-1923) was an American automobile manufacturer who founded the Packard Motor Car Company and Packard Electric Company with his brother James Ward Packard. A mechanical engineer, James Packard believed they could build a better horseless carriage than the Winton cars owned by Weiss, an important Winton stockholder, after Packard complained to Alexander Winton and offered suggestions for improvement, which were ignored; Packard's first car was built in Warren, Ohio, in 1899. The Winton Motor Carriage Company was a pioneer United States automobile manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Winton was one of the first American companies to sell a motor car. Alexander Winton (1860-1932) was a Scottish-American automobile designer and racer. In 1891, he founded Winton Bicycle Company, and in 1897 he founded the Winton Motor Carriage Company. In 1900, the Ohio Automobile Company was founded to produce Packard automobiles. These quickly gained an excellent reputation and the name was changed in 1902, to the Packard Motor Car Company.

Famous moto of company Packard was: ''Ask the man who owns one''.